Synopses & Reviews
Kidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks, and a requiem for lost love...
Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious hold over her. Jude is nursing her own revenge fantasy, but she needs Miller's help, and in exchange Miller wants Jude to help him with an unspeakable crime. Alone and outgunned, Poe hopes he can save Jude from herself, make sense of his own past, and navigate the torturous internal landscape he calls Hell's Half Acre.
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"An over-the-top Grande Guignol thriller that breaks every rule of fine literature without ever once descending to the lowest denominator. These pages hurt....Bruising stuff screeching on the knife-edge of acceptability." Kirkus Reviews
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"Baer's writing has an undeniable force it's sordid and entrancing, hallucinatory and yet given to brutal realism." The Times (London)
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"Baer's language is hip, spare, brutal, sometimes gorgeous." Publishers Weekly
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"Baer is, without a doubt, a writer of talent and promise." Denver Post
About the Author
Will Christopher Baer is the author of Kiss Me, Judas and Penny Dreadful. He lives in California.