[Jonsmuse] Book Review: Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis

[J. Lasser]

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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.

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