Connor de Bruler Book order

SHORT STORIES BY CONNOR DE BRULER "Hard-boiled is what you're going to get with Connor de Bruler's superb collection of short stories. For those who like their movies R-rated, with no filler, no moral restrictions, no magical resolutions, just gritty and raw storytelling. An absolute page-turner, with equal parts intensity and brevity." - Jonathan R. Rose, Carrion, The Spirit of Laughter and Gato Y Lobo. "de Bruler's collection rocks between Pizzolatto and Pynchon and defines the American geography of character with precision, and the occasional laugh-out-loud line: a catalogue of the underprivileged whose decadence and charm is unsettling and startling." - Walker Zupp, British Wittgenstein Society "Connor de Bruler's writing is magnetic." - Sam Lichtman, writer/director of Astray

A first-hand account of the life of Basil Shaver. With his gun stored away inside of a hollowed-out King James Bible, he writes his story on a series of yellow legal pads while squatting in a coastal motel amid the onset of a category-five hurricane. Fueled by sorrow and desperation, he reflects on being sold into sex slavery as a child, his days running drugs along the South Carolina coast for an Eastern-European criminal organization, rescuing the love of his life, and his nationwide spree of loanshark robberies.“Hollow Bible elevates the lurid subject matter from glamorized shock to real poetry...a thorny vine that grows through a lava field. Violence, drugs, and filth, de Bruler does it better than most.”— Paul d Miller, Albrecht Drue, Ghostpuncher“Try to look away.”— Jesse McKinnell, Anarchy and Other Lies

Vagabone An enthralling novel... would fit nicely on the shelf next to Cormac McCarthy and the darker tales of Joe R. Lansdale. A damn fine book. - Brandon Notla, Iron and Smoke Brutal and unrelenting. - Jessie McKinnell, Anarchy and Other Lies Vagabone follows protagonists Amalin and Pancho as they fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic United States and Mexico. Before the collapse, Amalin worked as a bartender and bookstore clerk. Fueled by desperation, she accepts a contract to venture beyond the military cordon to kill a dangerous cult leader known as The Teacher. Along the way, she meets Pancho, a Mexican boy with the gift of perfect aim, and Isaiah Dorman, a 19-year-old maverick trucker with adventure on his mind. Part Jodorowsky's El Topo by way of Sam Shepard, part William Gibson by way of Larry McMurtry, Vagabone exists to make real American literature out of the New Weird Fiction canon.

Dagur Aní Hemuðsen, a 17-year-old Faroese-born crust punk, goes by the nickname Rayne. He rides trains illegally across the United States in search of adventure and to escape the custody of his alcoholic, verbally abusive stepfather. While immersed in punk-rock subculture, Rayne finds himself passing through Last Junction, North Carolina, a dangerous Appalachian outpost with more than one bizarre secret.

Alluring high-school junior, Victoria Vandergreven, has gone missing from an upper-class home in the dead of night. The only clue is a tenuous connection to a remote campground hundreds of miles away in the hills of Tennessee. Like the shards of what was once a pane of glass, the disappearance connects a cast of desperate outsiders into their darkest days: a failed detective, a contract killer, a kidnapped woman, a small-town sheriff, and the CEO of a health food enterprise. Today is only the history of tomorrow. We're all living in the Olden Days.