While recovering from his wound and contemplating life behind a desk, along with wondering how he’s going to learn to brush his teeth left handed, Kline receives a series a phone calls from two guys** extremely impressed that Kline had the sack to self-cauterize his wound. It all began when the “the gentleman with the cleaver” chopped off his right hand, after which Kline cauterized the wound on a hotplate and shot his assailant through the eye. Kline is a former undercover detective going through a rough patch. Still here? Damn, you are a sick puppy with no boundaries.and I think I have a just the book for you. The December girl was little more than a torso, her breasts shaved off, wearing nothing but a thin white cloth banner from one shoulder to the opposite hip, reading ‘Miss Less is More.’ Okay, last warning.get out now if you must. March losing a breast, July missing both breasts, a hand, and a forearm. With each month, the losses became more obvious and more numerous. He looked at the first picture for some time before realizing the girl was missing one of her thumbs. It was full of stacks of calendars, each month featuring a woman in a various states of undress, smiling furiously. Item # 3: Just to hammer home and make sure we are clear on the degree of limb-lopping squirm that this story induces, I quote: He opened the cabinet.
If, on the other stump, you're still feeling the warm glow of your own twisted curiosity, than, by all means, proceed to Item 3. I understand completely and no questions will be asked. The dark, dreamlike, bizarreness of the narrative was like watching a David Lynch film.Īgain, if you think you may have made a mistake coming this far, please feel free to back track now.
Item # 2: Despite incorporating both the cadence and the tropes of hardboiled crime fiction, the surreal, existential heart of this novel has more in common with Kafka than with Chandler. On the other amputated hand, if the plot teaser intrigues you, please continue on to Item 2.
…than you may want to just quietly back away from this review. Item # 1: This is a hardboiled detective novel set in the world of religious fanaticism, with more amputations and mutilations than a Civil War field hospital.
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