Verses Nature Vol.1: In The Beginning Was The Heat (Special Edition‪)‬

Tatar loves women:
I LOVE WOMEN, I DUNNO. I love you. And envy you. And desire you. And take you. I love the taste of you. The feel of you. The sound of you. The thought of you. After three thousand women, I stopped counting...

Carmina is ready to hang her wifelife on a hook. Tatar catches her eye:
‘He is coarse. Intelligent. He fascinates me & disgusts me. Fascination won... I guess we're never more human than when we are not. It’s not right, but does that make it wrong?’

Tatar (Carmina thinks he stinks of Male Pig) and Carmina (Tatar can smell when a woman's on heat), locked in an intellectual-erotic Kampf that will end tragically if she loves him as much as he loves her. Sex. Power. God. Perversion. Or is it: innocence? Two controversial, addictive protagonists who change the rules, so get ready to change your mind.

‘Primal, deep, complex, secretive, honest, spacious. Grabs you.’ (Robert Hall)

‘Left me shaken. Perfect cubist characterizations, full of violence and scorn, yet emotional and sensitive. Never read anything like it before. Ever. Mind-blowing!’ (Purple Starsky)

‘Jesus Jahn this is not what I expected! A sexy slap in the face. I’m horrified, stunned, the brutal narration and dialogue that I’m enjoying with pangs of guilt. I know this should be detestable yet I can’t stop reading, can’t turn away until the last scene. It’s akin to a beautiful poetic version of driving by a mangled car accident with blood on the highway; you slow down, you can't tear your eyes away, you hope for the best but watch so closely the raw horror show that you nearly rear end the person in front of you... More fearless than anything I’ve ever read.’ (Bill Johnston)

‘Brilliant not in the British sense of ‘great idea’ but in the American sense of ‘the way Bobby Fischer plays chess’ - imagination plus intellect. JBSimon is the real McCoy, the real thing, the genuine article. Verses Nature blew me away!’ (Matthew Temple)

“Something for which I feel respect and a certain awe.” (Stuart Aken, top reviewer on Goodreads)