Crooked Little Vein : A Novel

Crooked Little Vein
Author(s): Warren Ellis

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.

Review(s):
“A heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines.”
“[A] brilliantly nasty and weird detective novel.”
“[C]ompletely compulsive, impossible to put down.”
“CROOKED LITTLE VEIN...is a book readers will not soon forget.”
“Not for the faint of heart...surprisingly funny (with shades of Lamb author Christopher Moore).”
“[M]ay be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the 21st century.”
“A relentlessly fascinating page-turner...brilliantly and effervescently subversive.”
“Ellis is a formidable talent whose wit and insight fit perfectly into the crime genre.”
“[A] much-needed kick in the butt for a genre that may be more stagnant than its enthusiasts realize.”
“Packed with exciting, hilarious, and disturbing events...outrageously entertaining.”



ISBN:  9780061252051