Cleft

They sent him to prison. They put him through electroshock treatment, intensive psychotherapy sessions, and religious training. They did everything they could to control him. Nothing worked. "There's only one thing in life worth living for," he says. "One thing worth dying for. And that's CLEFT."

Armed with a device called the "crack cam," Richard Wiggons terrorizes a city of unsuspecting women. He's a low-life degenerate, a prurient peeper, a connoisseur of the ultimate forbidden fruit:

**CLEFT**

One day he meets Arcadia Slim--a psychopathic hobo with a penchant for armed robbery. Slim needs a partner in crime, and Wiggons is game. Soon they're on the verge of the biggest score of their lives...not just cash, but the one thing that's even better...

**CLEFT**

When things go terribly wrong, Wiggons has to face the facts: that obsession exacts a huge price...that you can't escape the past...and that the wages of sin is

**CLEFT**

This isn't just a hard-boiled crime novel. It isn't just a satire or a demented picaresque or an antihero tale. Sure, it's all of those things, but it's also a tale the likes of which you've never seen. It's consumerist culture claptrap, bad porno, and cheap dime-store pulp noir filtered through the twisted and brilliant mind of writer Eddie Mulnix.

**CLEFT** is a page-turner you'll never forget.

"*Cleft* is a daring book—even disgusting at times—[and] very difficult to put down."-*-Razorcake Magazine *

"I didn't even know they made books like this anymore. Four stars...amazingly perverse criminal romp...if you haven’t caught this one yet, catch it now."-*-Paniscus Revue *