Crooked Little Vein: A Novel by Unknown, Warren Ellis
At the start of this dark, demented fiction debut from Ellis, the creator of DC Comics Transmetropolitan and The Authority, the U.S. presidents 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 Americas 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 Franklins 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 Burroughss
Detective
Crooked Little Vein: A Novel
Unknown, Warren Ellis
Category: Detective
Tags: Detective
At the start of this dark, demented fiction debut from Ellis, the creator of DC Comics Transmetropolitan and The Authority, the U.S. presidents 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 Americas 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 Franklins 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 Burroughss
