Warren Ellis is a bestselling comic-book writer for DC Comics. He has produced two of its most popular series: The Authority and Transmetropolitan. He's also worked on everything from Wolverine to Batman, and has been hailed as a genius by other recent uber-creators such as Alan Moore and Joss Whedon. This is his first novel. He lives in south east England with his partner Niki and their daughter Lilith.
"A heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"[A] brilliantly nasty and weird detective novel." -- Entertainment Weekly, EW 100 Pick"[C]ompletely compulsive, impossible to put down." -- Globe and Mail (Toronto)"CROOKED LITTLE VEIN...is a book readers will not soon forget." -- Chicago Tribune"Not for the faint of heart...surprisingly funny (with shades of Lamb author Christopher Moore)." -- Entertainment Weekly"[M]ay be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the 21st century." -- Lansing State Journal"A relentlessly fascinating page-turner...brilliantly and effervescently subversive." -- The Gazette (Montreal)"Ellis is a formidable talent whose wit and insight fit perfectly into the crime genre." -- Los Angeles Times"[A] much-needed kick in the butt for a genre that may be more stagnant than its enthusiasts realize." -- Philadelphia Inquirer"Packed with exciting, hilarious, and disturbing events...outrageously entertaining." -- Winnipeg Free Press"So funny you may just laugh out loud." -- Toronto Star"If you're looking for an antidote to the stifling formulae of genre fiction, this could be your book." -- New York magazine"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 and writer of The Justice League series"Stop it. You're frightening me." -- William Gibson, author of Spook Country"[L]augh-out-loud funny...a deeply inventive look at the undercurrents beneath the mainstream popular culture." -- Charlotte Observer"Funny, inventive and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes." -- Joss Whedon, creator, writer and director of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series"[S]omewhere between the noir of Frank Miller and dark comedy of Chuck Palahniuk." -- Forbes.com"A high-energy joyride." -- Library Journal"CROOKED LITTLE VEIN is a gem of a book -- angry, hilarious, and just plain weird...compulsively so." -- Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling co-author of HUNTERS OF DUNE"Warren Ellis writes like a bi-polar Raymond Chandler." -- Kinky Friedman, author of Ten Little Indians"There's at least one surprise, laugh, and genius turn of phrase per page here. " -- Myspace Books"Think Kurt Vonnegut having tea with William Burroughs and a bipolar Raymond Chandler...Ellis takes your breath away." -- Madison County Herald (Mississippi)"[A] snappily paced homage to William Burroughs' Naked Lunch." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] fast-paced and funny read...unforgettable." -- Boise Weekly"CROOKED LITTLE VEIN is a wild, rambling, funny look at the dark alleys of the American sexual landscape." -- Neal Bohl for Crimespree"Rich, dark humor and biting look at the world." -- PopMatters.com
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