Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis

[bookfrog]

Michael McGill is a private investigator living in his office when the President's chief of staff comes to see him. After casually revealing that he likes to shoot up heroin and shit himself while watching fashion models on TV, the chief offers Mike a job. Because of his tendency to find the weirdest shit the world has to offer, Mike is perfect to find a certain book that has been passing from person to person since the 1950s.

Setting out with a woman he meets in disturbing circumstances, Mike follows the trail of the book from weird shit to weirder shit.

I haven't enjoyed a book this much since Joe R. Lansdale's last novel.

Plus, it has the best line to start an action scene I've ever heard: "Let's do something really goddamn stupid."