β Scribed by Poppy Z. Brite; Deirdre C. Amthor
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a βguidebook to hell.β
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his βartβ to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his βartβ to limits even Compton hadnβt previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.
Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of Londonβs Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the...
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