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Crooked Little Vein: A Novel (P.S.)

Crooked Little Vein: A Novel (P.S.)

by WarrenEllis (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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    Hardcover 2007

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Synopsis

Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution-the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom's homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity-and this case is driving him even deeper into America's darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 01 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 0061252050
ISBN 13: 9780061252051

Media Reviews
A heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
[A] brilliantly nasty and weird detective novel. -- Entertainment Weekly, EW 100 Pick
[C]ompletely compulsive, impossible to put down. -- Globe and Mail (Toronto)
CROOKED LITTLE VEIN...is a book readers will not soon forget. -- Chicago Tribune
Not for the faint of heart...surprisingly funny (with shades of Lamb author Christopher Moore). -- Entertainment Weekly
[M]ay be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the 21st century. -- Lansing State Journal
A relentlessly fascinating page-turner...brilliantly and effervescently subversive. -- The Gazette (Montreal)
Ellis is a formidable talent whose wit and insight fit perfectly into the crime genre. -- Los Angeles Times
[A] much-needed kick in the butt for a genre that may be more stagnant than its enthusiasts realize. -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Packed with exciting, hilarious, and disturbing events...outrageously entertaining. -- Winnipeg Free Press
So funny you may just laugh out loud. -- Toronto Star
If you're looking for an antidote to the stifling formulae of genre fiction, this could be your book. -- New York magazine
Get ready for a wonderful kick in the teeth that'll make you lick your bloody lip with masochistic joy. -- Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE and writer of The Justice League series
Stop it. You're frightening me. -- William Gibson, author of Spook Country
[L]augh-out-loud funny...a deeply inventive look at the undercurrents beneath the mainstream popular culture. -- Charlotte Observer
Funny, inventive and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes. -- Joss Whedon, creator, writer and director of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
[S]omewhere between the noir of Frank Miller and dark comedy of Chuck Palahniuk. -- Forbes.com
A high-energy joyride. -- Library Journal
CROOKED LITTLE VEIN is a gem of a book -- angry, hilarious, and just plain weird...compulsively so. -- Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling co-author of HUNTERS OF DUNE
Warren Ellis writes like a bi-polar Raymond Chandler. -- Kinky Friedman, author of Ten Little Indians
There's at least one surprise, laugh, and genius turn of phrase per page here. -- Myspace Books
Think Kurt Vonnegut having tea with William Burroughs and a bipolar Raymond Chandler...Ellis takes your breath away. -- Madison County Herald (Mississippi)
[A] snappily paced homage to William Burroughs' Naked Lunch. -- Publishers Weekly
[A] fast-paced and funny read...unforgettable. -- Boise Weekly
CROOKED LITTLE VEIN is a wild, rambling, funny look at the dark alleys of the American sexual landscape. -- Neal Bohl for Crimespree
Rich, dark humor and biting look at the world. -- PopMatters.com
Author Bio
Warren Ellis is one of the most prolific, read, and admired graphic novelists in the world and the creator of Transmetropolitan and The Authority. He lives in southern England with his partner, Niki, and their daughter, Lilith. He never sleeps.