Publisher’s promise: once you start reading this novel of coincidence, conspiracy and corruption, you simply will not be able to stop. This is a great book. Buy it and read it. Theres no more to say. M. J. Hyland This blackly funny novel of our times follows what happens when Odell Deefus takes one wrong turn on the journey of his life and crashes into a world of oddballs, misfits, drug-dealers, religious fanatics and crooked cops, hypocrisy, torture and bloody murder. ‘A nail-biting trip into the Dark Heart of America.’ Kate Saunders, The Times ‘A dazzling, outrageous and important book.’ Melissa Katsoulis, New Statesman ‘A modern Catch-22.’ Independent