Crooked Little Vein
Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Fell and Desolation Jones, has his first novel in wide release in America today.
The first chapter of the book is available here.
...and you can order the book here.
My copy's coming in the mail tomorrow -- and don't think I'm not going to lose sleep like a binge-reading Harry Potter fan over it.
Here's what some are saying about the book:
"Stop it. You're frightening me." - William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country
“I think this book ate my soul. Warren Ellis has mapped out the psycho-sexual underbelly of America with a foreigner’s clarity and a lunatic’s glee. Funny, inventive and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes.” - Joss Whedon, creator and writer of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Serenity
“Warren Ellis writes like a bi-polar Raymond Chandler. Crooked Little Vein injects at least two welcome elements into the tired, clogged mystery field: a a little death and a little life. It’s also funny enough to make you s***t standing.”
- Kinky Friedman, author of A Case of Lonestar and Ten Little New Yorkers
"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.
Ellis is one of my favorite writers and a little over a year ago I interviewed him for the N&R while he was in town for Heroes Con in Charlotte. Terrific interview -- one of those moments when you meet someone whose work you've loved and don't come away disappointed.
Ellis' Publisher's Weekly interview about the book here.
Get a free PDF of Transmetropolitan #1 here.
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