Jack O'Connell Livres

A stunningly original dystopic novel about the impact of new synthetic drug Lingo on a depressed New England factory town. Besides offering a potent high, Lingo delivers a shot to the brain cells governing linguistic comprehension and verbal skill. Until murderous rages and babbling insanity take over, this mind-expanding feature makes the drug dangerously seductive. Box Nine shows a noir vision of a city that has become a virtual battlefield between warring multi-ethnic drug cartels.

Sweeney's son Danny was the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have resurrected other patients. Sweeney soon learns that the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son was drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue surrounding the clinic, Sweeney's search for answers leads to terrifying corners of darkness and mystery. The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a twisted territory.

Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have something to do with the ritual death-by-flensing of Leo Tani? Or does the answer involve Gilrein's ex-lover, now working as a librarian for a bibliomaniac gangster? Or maybe the whole thing has something to do with the Inspector, inventor of the notorious Methodology? So many questions and more in the fourth book in the Quinsigamond Quintet.