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Crooked Little Vein

A Novel (P.S.)

By Warren Ellis

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| Paperback | 9780061252051

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Book Description

Michael McGill is a burned-out private detective who suddenly becomes enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the Constitution of the United States, but not the one we all know about. This would be the real Constitution (the one with invisible amendments) created by some of the FoundinContinue

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Crooked Little Vein

Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis’s dark reworking of America, mixes absurd fantasies with real horrors, though his imagery falls short of the nightmarish. Sure, ostrich fetishists are mentioned, and there’s a film screening for enthusiasts of Godzil ... (read full critics)

raintaxi published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

By Warren Ellis. HarperCollins Canada, 288 pp, $27.95, hardcover Warren Ellis moves deftly from the pages of comics with his debut novel, Crooked Little Vein, a pulpish detective story inspired by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The high-conce ... (read full critics)

straight published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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Paraphrasing The Globe and Mail review: It takes a perverse talent to write a revolutionary novel practically guaranteed to offend every potential reader (and to thrill the rebels); it takes a gift to make that same novel completely compulsive, impossible to put down.
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