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The story follows kline, a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. Winner of american library associationrusa 2010 award for outstanding horror novel of the year. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Brian lindenmuth in crimespree magazine and at bookspot central the book careens past biblical satire into fullon, bloodsoaked, beckettian absurdity. Intense and profoundly unsettling, brian evenson s last days is a downtherabbithole detective novel set in an underground religious cult.
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