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Violence
A lot
Graphic violence throughout; murders, organ theft, brutal confrontations
Language
A lot
Strong and pervasive profanity
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit sexual content
Substance Use
A lot
Heavy drug and alcohol use is central to the protagonist's psychology
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Deeply nihilistic; extreme psychological darkness, dissociation, and existential despair
What this book is about
Phineas Poe wakes in a Denver hotel bathtub missing one kidney — the woman who put him there may be the most dangerous person he's ever met. Will Christopher Baer's debut noir is neo-noir at its most extreme: hallucinatory, violent, drug-soaked, and written in a fractured prose that mirrors Poe's dissociation. The Phineas Poe trilogy that follows is a cult achievement of American crime fiction, definitively for adults only.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Graphic violence
Organ theft premise
Heavy drug use
Explicit content
Extreme psychological darkness
Adults only
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