Crooked Little Vein
A Novel
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4.6, 5 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this dark, demented fiction debut from Ellis, the creator of DC Comics' Transmetropolitan and The Authority, the U.S. president's heroin-addicted chief of staff hires 25-year-old Lower East Side PI Mike McGill to find the "other" Constitution. This is "a secret document privately authored by several of the Founders" detailing "the real intent of their design for American society," which a debauched vice-president Nixon "lost" in the '50s. With "half a mill" in black ops money, Mike hires cute tattooed Trix Holmes to be his guide to America's deviant underworld, whence the 50-year-old cold trail begins. In their search for the missing document, "reputedly bound in the skin of the extraterrestrial entity that plagued Benjamin Franklin's ass over six nights in Paris," the pair make some wild pit stops in Columbus, Ohio; San Antonio, Tex.; Vegas; and, finally, L.A. The home of the free and the land of the brave has rarely looked so creepy in this snappily paced homage to William Burroughs's Naked Lunch.
Customer Reviews
Not your mama's detective novel
Well, maybe it is, it all depends on how twisted your mama is. This book is not for everyone but if you enjoy Ellis then you'll enjoy this. It had me laughing and grossed out all at once.
