The Bastard Hand
Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He's escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhiked his way south, the voice of his dead brother urging him on. But when Charlie hits Memphis, the fine line between his delusions and reality shift in the form of the Reverend Phineas Childe-a...
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Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He's escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhiked his way south, the voice of his dead brother urging him on. But when Charlie hits Memphis, the fine line between his delusions and reality shift in the form of the Reverend Phineas Childe-a preacher bent on booze and women; a Man of God with a dark agenda. Charlie is the perfect pawn in the Reverend's game of retribution. And the small North Mississippi town of Cuba Landing will be the setting for the Reverend's very personal Apocalypse. . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780982843628 (0982843623)
Publish date: March 21st 2011
Publisher: New Pulp Press
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
"Helloooooo, niggers!" is always a good way to introduce yourself and greet your audience, especially when you are a reverend and guest speaker in a church. Reverend Childe makes his apparence in true reality TV show style, but this is an incident which clearly shows what kind of person the Reverend...
This is a seedy, dirty, book with enough bastards to populate a small town – which they do, Cuba Landing. Heath Lowrance gets disconcertedly into the mind of Charles Wesley, the mentally ill narrator, and takes us to some dark places. We start with muggings in Memphis and end up with beatings, shoot...
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