Crooked Little Vein: A Novel
 

Heart of America

by Warren Ellis

Burned-out private detective and self-styled shit magnet Michael McGill needed a wake-up call to jump-start his dead career. What he got was a virtual cattle prod to the crotch, in the form of an impossible assignment delivered directly from the president's heroin-addict chief of staff. It seems the Constitution of the United States has some skeletons in its closet: the Founding Fathers... (read more)

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This is a darkly comic neo-noir. It is richly futuristic but set in the present day. It has macroherpetophiles. It involves the injection of saline into various extra-sensitive places. It is great.

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  • Shi

    shi said:

    it made me chuckle.

    posted Thursday, September 13 2007
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