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

Ellis, Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061252050 ISBN 13: 9780061252051

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2008

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.

About this title

Review:

“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)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061252050
• ISBN 13: 9780061252051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304