From jon at lasser.org Wed Aug 8 22:46:35 2007 From: jon at lasser.org (J. Lasser) Date: Wed Aug 8 22:56:14 2007 Subject: [Jonsmuse] Book Review: Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis Message-ID: http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/fiction/fr/crookedLittle.htm Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis 4 out of 5 stars Crooked Little Vein is an ace put-up job. Comic-book auteur Warren Ellis' very funny first novel combines a mystery, a road trip, a romance, and extensive research into the darker corners of the Internet, and purports to be a descent into the Inferno of contemporary America. Private eye Mike McGill is down on his luck, living in his New York City office and trying to kill the rat using his coffee cup as a urinal when he receives a visit from a mysterious government official bearing a mission, a handheld computer, and an extremely large expense account. The mission: retrieve the "Secret Constitution," which will enable the government to restore probity and decency to that slice of Sodom situated between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. [ . . . Continued at http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/fiction/fr/crookedLittle.htm . . . ] -- Jon Lasser jon@lasser.org 206-326-0614 . . . and the walls became the world all around . . . (Maurice Sendak)