Publisher's Synopsis
In this dark and hilarious first novel in Harsch's La Crosse trilogy, Spleen, the hero, falls in love with The Sneering Brunette and is pulled into an intrigue involving a psychotic hit man who eats live pigeons, a snitch named The Fag with no Eyebrows, a reformed snitch named Billy Verite, and two crooked policemen, Stratton and his partner, the black undercover cop in the white city. The plot that unfolds is a dance with the absurd, its wisdom coming from B-movie actors and philosophical taxi drivers which flirts with the anti-romance of Algren and Bukowski.
