Description: "Packed with exciting, hilarious, and disturbing events...outrageously entertaining." - Winnipeg Free Press "[A] much-needed kick in the butt for a genre that may be more stagnant than its enthusiasts realize." - Philadelphia Inquirer "There's at least one surprise, laugh, and genius turn of phrase per page here. " - Myspace Books "Stop it. You're frightening me." - William Gibson, author of Spook Country "A relentlessly fascinating page-turner...brilliantly and effervescently subversive." - The Gazette (Montreal) "A heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "If you're looking for an antidote to the stifling formulae of genre fiction, this could be your book." - New York magazine "CROOKED LITTLE VEIN...is a book readers will not soon forget." - Chicago Tribune "[L]augh-out-loud funny...a deeply inventive look at the undercurrents beneath the mainstream popular culture." - Charlotte Observer "Rich, dark humor and biting look at the world." - PopMatters.com "[A] fast-paced and funny read...unforgettable." - Boise Weekly "[C]ompletely compulsive, impossible to put down." - Globe and Mail (Toronto) "[S]omewhere between the noir of Frank Miller and dark comedy of Chuck Palahniuk." - Forbes.com "Ellis is a formidable talent whose wit and insight fit perfectly into the crime genre." - Los Angeles Times "Think Kurt Vonnegut having tea with William Burroughs and a bipolar Raymond Chandler...Ellis takes your breath away." - Madison County Herald (Mississippi) "So funny you may just laugh out loud." - Toronto Star "Not for the faint of heart . . . surprisingly funny (with shades of Lamb author Christopher Moore) . . . a perfectly acceptable addtion to any slightly sadistic beach bag." - Entertainment Weekly "Not for the faint of heart...surprisingly funny (with shades of Lamb author Christopher Moore)." - Entertainment Weekly "[A] snappily paced homage to William Burroughs' Naked Lunch." - Publishers Weekly "A high-energy joyride." - Library Journal "[A] brilliantly nasty and weird detective novel." - Entertainment Weekly, EW 100 Pick "[M]ay be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the 21st century." - Lansing State Journal "Warren Ellis writes like a bi-polar Raymond Chandler." - Kinky Friedman, author of Ten Little Indians "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 "CROOKED LITTLE VEIN is a wild, rambling, funny look at the dark alleys of the American sexual landscape." - Neal Bohl for Crimespree "The home of the free and the land of the brave has rarely looked so creepy in this snappily paced homage to William Burroughs' Naked Lunch." - Publishers Weekly "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 "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

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