Disintegration: A Novel

Disintegration: A Novel

â€œA dark existential thriller of unexpected twists, featuring a drowning man determined to pull the rest of the world under with him, Disintegration is a stunning and vital piece of work.â€â€”Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting

In a brilliantly stylish breakthrough thriller for fans of Bret Easton Ellisâ€™s American Psycho and Will Christopher Baerâ€™s Kiss Me, Judas, here is the compelling tale of a man who has lost it allâ€”and is now navigating a crooked, harrowing path to redemption.
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Once a suburban husband and father, now the man has lost all sense of time. 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. These are memories of a man who no longer exists. Booze and an affair with a beautiful woman provide little relief, with the only meaning left in his life coming from his assignments. An envelope slipped under the door of his apartment with the name and address of an unpunished evildoer. The unspoken directive to kill. And every time he does, he marks the occasion with a memento: a tattoo. He has a lot of tattoos.
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But into this unchanging existence seep unsettling questions. 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 lifeâ€”and the lives of everyone around himâ€”to find out.

Advance praise for Disintegration
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â€œSweet hot hell, Richard Thomas writes like a man possessed, a man on fire, a guy with a gun to his head. And youâ€™ll read Disintegration like thereâ€™s a gun to yours, too. Itâ€™s a twisted masterpiece.â€â€”Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds and Double Dead
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â€œThis novel is so hard-hitting it should come with its own ice pack. 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.â€â€”Benjamin Percy, author of The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding
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â€œRichard Thomas builds his universe and its population with terse prose and dynamic, often horrifyingly visceral imagery that unspools with grand weirdness and intensity. Then he rips that universe apart, brick by bloody brick. Disintegration is provocative. Itâ€™s also damned fine noir.â€â€”Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and The Croning
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â€œDisintegration 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 Danteâ€™s Hell. Richard Thomasâ€™s depraved, doomed philosopher-hitman is your guide. I suggest you do as he says and follow him, if you know whatâ€™s good for you.â€â€”Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Little Sleep

â€œGritty, obsessive, and compulsively readable.â€â€”Brian Evenson, author of Immobility

â€œIn sharp, icy prose that cuts like a glacial wind, Richard Thomasâ€™s dark Chicago tale keeps us absolutely riveted to the very end.â€â€”Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time

Country	USA
Author	Richard Thomas
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101882627
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Alibi
Manufacturer	Alibi
NumberOfPages	258
PublicationDate	2015-05-26
Publisher	Alibi
ReleaseDate	2015-05-26
Studio	Alibi

Disintegration: A Novel

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