Bodyslick
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An unforgettable new novel set in the year 2031,where gangs, guns, and genetic engineering rule.In a world where genetic engineering and organ transplants are booming businesses on the black market, Malcolm Steel, Jr. is king. His turf is Chicago, a city torn apart by the haves and have-nots alike, and Malcolm-known as Bodyslick on the streets-has found a lucrative hustle stealing healthy organs and selling them to desperate, wealthy patients in need of transplants.Bodyslick has the connections, the knowledge, and the 9mm laser pistol just in case things get hectic. But with the Italian mob, racist skinheads, and the biggest gang in Chinatown on his case, he is going to need all the help he can get, especially when his old `hood cutbuddy and rival ganglord get ready to take over the trade by any means necessary.Now Bodyslick will make one last run to try to get out of the game for good. But some people will do anything and destroy anyone to make sure that the only way he goes out is piece by bloody piece.Publishers WeeklyThis absurdly gory debut novel from essayist Sibley offers a bleak picture of the United States of 2031. Economic collapse has created new career opportunities for thugs like Malcolm "Bodyslick" Steel, one of Chicago's leading black market organ dealers. When the grandson of incredibly wealthy Louis Vanderbilt urgently needs a new heart, Bodyslick is hired to procure one. His efforts are complicated by mob warfare between the Mafia and Chinatown gangs, leading to a staggering body count. Supposedly sympathetic Bodyslick seems incapable of any deep emotion; when a loved one dies horribly, it takes him only a few pages to revert to fantasizing about an attractive robot. The political message is more of a broad parody and the potential of the setting is largely unrealized. Sketchy monochrome illustrations, gratuitous and horrific violence ("He snatched the tiny infant from its dead mother's umbilical cord and... kicked it down the alley") and endless crude language add nothing but an amateurish air. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
