ABOUT THE BOOK

A harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely unforgettable. Amid the post industrial decay of Quinsigamond glitters a fabulous jewel - Herzog's Erotic Palace - America's most lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But most of all, Herzog's is the place where dreamers meet and seductive nightmares find their dazzling realisation. For the obsessed grunge auteur, the heartsick crime king, the apocalyptic tele-evangelist and the young woman intent on a capturing a shrouded past and an onrushing future within a camera's lens, The Skin Palace will reveal all secrets, in a script fraught with danger and feverish transformation.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'JACK O'CONNELL IS THE FUTURE OF THE DARK LITERARY SUSPENSE NOVEL' - JAMES ELLROY

Word Made Flesh

'Hyper-real noir. A grotesque romance about genocide, language, bibliomania, doubt, obsession, worms, epidermis and sanctuary!' - James Ellroy

Box Nine

'A surrealistic noir epic that's part David Lynch and part Brett Easton Ellis' - Booklist

'The most electrifying debut crime novel you are likely to read all year' - GQ

Wireless

'...has a kind of hallucinatory fascination...amazing in its density, power, richness of detail, humour and irony...a dazzling piece of work. One of the year's 10 best!' - L.A.Times