The New York TimesтАУbestselling author тАЬshows how a serial killerтАЩs paradise and a serial killerтАЩs hell are really the same placeтАЭ (Brian Evenson, O.┬аHenry AwardтАУwinning author).
When a serial killer hits the top of his game, where does he go from there? William Colton Hughes finds out. Not interested in notoriety, Hughes just wants to do what heтАЩs good at: torture and murder. It never occurs to him that he could make a living at it┬а.┬а.┬а. until the yoga instructor.
She happens to be the girlfriend of a powerful and cunning crime boss who catches Hughes literally red-handed. In a twist even Hughes never sees coming, heтАЩs not immediately put down. Instead, heтАЩs set up in a warren of apartments. HughesтАЩs own private high-rise sanctuary, where his new benefactor feeds victims to him. He couldnтАЩt ask for more. But when his supplies stop coming, Hughes begins to lose his already tenuous grip on realityтАФand learns that even monsters have their own boogeymen to deal with┬а.┬а.┬а.
тАЬA grim, funny, stylish hallucination of a bookтАФmurderous insanity seen from the inside out. YouтАЩll be revolted by this guy, but heтАЩll fascinate you too.тАЭ тАФJack Ketchum, Bram Stoker AwardтАУwinning author
тАЬ[JonesтАЩs] writing is hallucinogenic, varied, fascinating.┬а.┬а.┬а. Big names in writing [come] to mind: Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, even Faulkner.тАЭ тАФNew Pages