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| | The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Underground LA is haunted, and the reader is ambushed by the ghosts of Dashiell Hammet, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and others as we follow Vincent through his self-created maze. |
 | | Vincent, the contortionist, has made a career of changing his identity after each migraine attack leaves him in the hands of the authorities. |
 | | Rasputins large, unseeing eyes, the preternatural charisma of the cats insane namesake, the cats distress when too many people are present create but one of the doubling effects laced throughout this novel. |
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