Of My Flesh and This Wicked World

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Summary: Vivid, gritty, searingly memorable.
Review: Lew Kemp is a bouncer at the wild and decadent nightclub Alias in West Los Angeles. Of My Flesh And This Wicked World recounts his life as it spins out of control. The reader is plunge into a world gone wrong in this modern noir tale exploring the morals and manners, the principles and people that defined the fast living L.A. subculture of the early eighties. Lew finds himself being drawn into a romance, his destiny with dancer Ivy Hanlin, and deeper into the vile surroundings of night club denizens, with his own world starting to break apart. Shifting conflict and the realization that he is being pulled further away from all that he knows is right and good fuel Lew's desire to break free, all culminating in a startlingly and unexpected climax. Of My Flesh And This Wicked World is an exceptional, vivid, gritty, and searingly memorable excursion into a place and time that will linger in the reader's mind long after the novel is concluded and set back upon the shelf.