Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis
Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis
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Crooked Little Vein
A Novel

Author: Warren Ellis

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/15/2007

Synopsis

Michael McGill is a burned-out private detective who suddenly becomes enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the Constitution of the United States, but not the one we all know about. This would be the real Constitution (the one with invisible amendments) created by some of the Founding Fathers as a fallback for their great experiment. Along the way, McGill gains a polyamorous sidekick named Trix, gets scared to death by what men do with warm salty water, and descends into a world where crime, sex, and madness all seem to be the same thing.

Full of mind-bending style and packed with a wild cast of characters, Crooked Little Vein infuses Robert B. Parker with Kurt Vonnegut and the madness of the graphic novel world. A surprisingly surreal treat, it will appeal to hardcore comic fans, mystery aficionados, and anybody looking for a riotous adventure.

About Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis is one of the most prolific graphic novelists in the world and the creator of such popular series as Transmetropolitan and The Authority. He has won many awards and been nominated for many more. Ellis has also written over fifty graphic novels, television scripts, and video game scripts. He lives in southern England with his partner, Niki, and their daughter, Lilith.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Toby on August 06, 2007

Wow, was this book disappointing. What should have been Ellis's introduction to the print world became a collection of hey-guys-look-at-this-crazy-shit-I-found-on-the-internet-and-posted-on-my-blog-already, strung together by the thinnest of narratives. There are occasional sentences that smack of t......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 20, 2011

Well, this is just all kinds of messed up….. Mike McGill is a private detective with bizarre luck that has him constantly getting mixed up in things he’d rather not know about like guys who have sex with ostriches. The creepy and corrupt White House chief of staff wants to use Mike’s tendency to be a......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle on November 25, 2018

Updated review after a re-read in November 2018 -- This book is not for the faint-hearted or the easily shocked. I am pretty unflappable, and yet this book had me going “WTF did I just read?!”. When I turned the last page of “Crooked Little Vein”, I was laughing and grossed out simultaneously. There w......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on February 18, 2019

-Humor chapoteante y crítica solapada.- Género. Novela. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Camino tortuoso (publicación original: Crooked Little Vein, 2007) nos presenta a Michael McGill, investigador privado de medio pelo que parece atraer las cosas raras como un imán, al quien el jefe de gabinete de la ofi......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on May 24, 2014

Mike McGill is a self-professed shit magnet and as an independent private investigator, he’s brought some bizzare work by some even stranger clientele. However, nothing holds a candle to the job he’s been hired for by the president’s heroin-addicted chief of staff. Tasked with tracking down a secret......more

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