Chimpman Zee #1: Never beat on a woman, even if she's got it coming

Chimpman Zee #1
'Never beat on a woman, even if she's got it coming'

“I’m the Chimpman. But you can call me Zee.”

Zee is a private eye in 1950s Hollywood. A place where the rich and successful live cheek by jowl with the poor, the broken, and the rest. A place that epitomizes the American Dream, but also a place where criminals thrive in dark alleys and Beverly Hills mansions. A place where a mobster can be gunned down in his ritzy front parlor. A place where a fourteen year old girl can be an addict and a whore.

But Zee is not a typical private eye. He has a past. A past so incredible that most people are blind to it, no matter that it marks every part of him. He is unnaturally strong and hairy, his bones are all but unbreakable, and he is plagued by his alter-ego – a creature he calls the animal.

In this, the first of nine Chimpman Zee stories, Zee meets Rose, a working girl with a problem she thinks he can solve. And he will, in his own special way.