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ANTHONY
NEIL SMITH
PSYCHOSOMATIC
“Because
Lydia didn’t have arms or legs, she shelled out three thousand
bucks to a washed up middleweight named Cap to give her ex-husband
the beating of his life.”
But the beating turns to murder, and the murder into lust and
desperation between Lydia and an underworld clean-up man. Meanwhile,
overgrown frat boy car thieves take up cop killing as a side hobby.
When these paths cross, a horror show of violence unfolds as they
all slide into a hell of their own design, surrounded by the neon
and noise of the casino strip on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Violent, vivid, life at hyper-speed.
This debut novel from the editor of Plots with Guns is a noir
nightmare that asks how much is too much in a relationship, and
what is the cost of leaving? Ken Bruen calls it “the darkest
song I’ve ever read”.
"Anthony Neil
Smith takes hardboiled, crunches it, peels back the shell, and
finishes it off with a flamethrower. Always with an eye for the
perfect detail, a tuning fork for crackling dialogue, and prose
that goes down smooth. Don’t flinch, or you’ll miss
something. You were warned."
Sean
Doolittle
author of BURN
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VICTOR
GISCHLER :
Anthony Neil Smith wants to horrify you on every level,
so he wrote a novel called Psychosomatic.
This book piles one atrocity on top of another and shows
you just how dark and nasty and evil humanity can be. Psychosomatic
doesn't let you rest or catch your breath. You think
you've got the balls to read this novel? We'll see, punk.
We'll just see."
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