![]() Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and KnockemstiffīIO: Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of eight books: three novels-Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), as well as Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications) four short story collections-Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken Press), Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press), Tribulations (Cemetery Dance), and Spontaneous Human Combustion (Turner Publishing) and one novella in The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). “In sharp, icy prose that cuts like a glacial wind, Richard Thomas’ dark Chicago tale keeps us absolutely riveted to the very end.” Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Little Sleep I suggest you do as he says and follow him, if you know what's good for you.” Richard Thomas' depraved-doomed-philosopher hitman is your guide. “ Disintegration is gritty neo-noir a psycho-sexual descent into an unhinged psyche and an underworld Chicago that could very well stand in for one of the rings of Dante's Hell. Brian Evenson, author of Immobility and Windeye Gritty, obsessive, and compulsively readable.” “A sodden, stumbling anti-hero in a noir so dark it makes much of the rest of the genre seem like Disney movies by comparison. Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and The Croning Then he rips that universe apart, brick by bloody brick. “Thomas builds his universe and its population with terse prose and dynamic, often horrifyingly visceral imagery that unspools with grand weirdness and intensity. Benjamin Percy, author of The Dead Lands and Red Moon ![]() Richard Thomas is the wild child of Raymond Chandler and Chuck Palahniuk, a neo-noirist who brings to life a gritty, shadow-soaked, bullet-pocked Chicago as the stage for this compulsively readable crime drama.” “This novel is so hard-hitting it should come with its own ice-pack. Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds and Double Dead And you’ll read Disintegration like there’s a gun to yours, too. “Sweet hot hell, Richard Thomas writes like a man possessed, a man on fire, a guy with a gun to his head. How much of what he feels and sees can he trust? How much is a lie designed to control him? He will risk his own life-and the lives of everyone around him-to find out. He has a lot of tattoos.īut into this unchanging existence seep unsettling questions. And every time he does, he marks the occasion with a memento: a tattoo. An envelope slipped under the door of his apartment with the name and address of an unpunished evildoer. Booze and an affair with a beautiful woman provide little relief, with the only meaning left in his life coming from his assignments. These are memories of a man who no longer exists. ![]() He retains only a few keepsakes of his former life: a handmade dining room table, an armoire and dresser from the bedroom, and a tape of the last message his wife ever left on their answering machine. Once a suburban husband and father, now the man has lost all sense of time. In a brilliantly stylish breakthrough thriller for fans of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and Will Christopher Baer’s Kiss Me, Judas, here is the compelling tale of a man who has lost it all-and is now navigating a crooked, harrowing path to redemption. Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting and Filth “A dark existential thriller of unexpected twists, featuring a drowning man determined to pull the rest of the world under with him. TOP TEN NOVELS OF 2015- The Horror Bookshelf BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2015- Entropy MagazineīEST FICTION READS OF 2015- Quiet Fury Books
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