The story line was gripping, with definite moments of surrealism and deep levels of structural dementia.Īnd did it go happily? Hell, no. They were respectable, they had their weaknesses. They conflicted, they aided each other, they did whatever seemed necessary for their own morals and agendas. Here I had found a novel with no good or bad guys, simply an intriguing collection of intricately real humans with their own agendas. I was so immediately engrossed that everyone who had been looking forward to welcoming me home found themselves staring at the back of a book, without a word from me. I began reading it on a return flight, and couldn't set it down. I wanted to know who he was, I expected to be bored as usual and blew it off for the book I was re-reading ( Watership Down by Richard Adams, actually). My first Hodge novel reading experience was Death Grip, his 4th novel. Could I find such perfection in a novelist? Guffaw. And I damn well better be moved in several ways by what I'm reading. An intricacy of story-line and substance is definitely handy, especially with deep levels of dementia. That a touch of the surreal definitely doesn't hurt. That I have a love for deep characterization which can make you know you might as well be reading the life story of a true person. You all know that I can't stomach fluffy happy endings. Naturally, intelligence throughout is crucial. Let me put it simply: I've always looked for a few base elements in fiction.

This is an excerpt of about the first 1/5 of the interview fromīy Jasmine Sailing Chances are that you have noticed my biased preference toward Brian Hodge novels and are wondering what inspired such admiration. Kerebawa's arrival is the only redeeming and imaginative feature of Hodge's ( Dark Advent ) occasionally ghastly and overly long novel.Cyber-Psychos AOD #6 Interview Excerpt: Brian Hodge CP Home | CPAOD #6 | CPAOD Catalogue | Contributors Mendoza himself is sought by the Yanomamo warrior Kerebawa, who travels to America to retrieve skullflush and avenge its theft before it is sniffed by too many of the wrong noses. Tampa drug dealer Tony Mendoza, who turns into a human version of his pet piranha when he samples the drug, begins a search for Justin, the only witness who knows what really happened in the disco that fateful night.

Another of Erik's friends, Trent, takes rather a larger dose and is tranformed into a ravenous beast who practically devours four people and then commits suicide. But on his first night in town his buddy Erik takes him to a disco, where he tries a mild dose of skullflush. Louis, has arrived in Tampa, Fla., to start a new life. Justin Gray, a former small-time drug dealer in St. 35 from a fierce Venezuelan mountain people wreaks havoc on its abusers.

Publisher's Weekly The theft by a drug lord of a mysterious green powder called skullflushp.

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