Book Preview Acknowledgments Thanks to my agent, Ginger Clark, and my editor, Diana Gill. Thanks also to Pamela Spengler-Jaffee, Caroline Perny, Will Hinton, Shawn Nicholls, Dana Trombley, Emma Coode, and the rest of the team at HarperVoyager. Thanks also to Dave Barbor, Sarah LaPolla, and Holly Frederick. Big thanks to Martha and Lorenzo in L.A. … Read more
Book Preview Epigraph To descend into Hell is easy; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air—There’s the rub, the task. —Aeneid, BOOK 6 In this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those … Read more
Book Preview Aloha from Hell “TELL ME,” SAYS the Frenchman. “How long has it been since you last killed anything?” He’s fucking with me. He knows the answer, but he wants to make me say it. Father Vidocq taking confession. “I don’t know. What time is it?” “That long, then?” I shrug. Vidocq and … Read more
Book Preview Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breedsPerverse, all monstrous, all prodigious thingsAbominable, unutterable, and worse … —PARADISE LOST, BOOK 2 I don’t want to achieve immortality through mywork. I want to achieve it through not dying. —WOODY ALLEN Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breedsPerverse, all monstrous, all prodigious … Read more
Book Preview Just judge of vengeance, grant the gift of forgiveness, before the day of reckoning. —DIES IRAE, REQUIEM MASS The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON Just judge of vengeance, grant the gift of forgiveness, before the day of reckoning. —DIES IRAE, … Read more