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William Morrow
August 2007
On Sale: July 24, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0060723939
EAN: 9780060723934
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Mystery Private Eye
Burned-out private detective and self-styled shit magnet
Michael McGill needed a wake-up call to jump-start his dead
career. What he got was a virtual cattle prod to the crotch,
in the form of an impossible assignment delivered directly
from the president's heroin-addict chief of staff. It seems
the Constitution of the United States has some skeletons in
its closet: the Founding Fathers doubted that the document
would be able to stave off human nature indefinitely, so
they devised a backup Constitution to deploy at the first
sign of crisis. In the government's eyes, that time is now,
as America is overgrown with perverts who spend more time
surfing the Web for fetish porn than they do reading a
newspaper. They want to use this "Secret Constitution" to
drive the country back to a time when civility, God, and
mom's homemade apple pie were all that mattered.
The only problem is, no one can seem to find it . . .
So who better to track it down than a private dick who's
so down-and-out that he's coming up the other side, a shamus
whose only skill is stumbling into every depraved situation
imaginable? With no lead to speak of, and no
knowledge of the underground world in which the Constitution
has traveled, McGill embarks on a cross-country odyssey of
America's darkest, dankest underbelly. Along the way, his
white-bread sensibilities are treated to a smorgasbord of
depravity that runs the gamut of human imagination. The
filth mounts; it is clear that this isn't the kind of life,
liberty, or happiness that Thomas Jefferson thought
Americans would enjoy in the twenty-first century.
But what McGill learns as he closes in on the real
Constitution is that freedom takes many forms, the most
important of which may be the fight against the "good old
days." Like Vonnegut, Orwell, and Huxley before him, Warren
Ellis deftly exposes the hypocrisy of the "moral majority"
by giving us a glimpse at the monstrous outcome that their
overzealous policies would achieve.
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