num_pages: 302
description: "Death likes to drive through darkened suburban streets — sightseeing, as you would take your loved ones to look at the Christmas lights on a chill and snowy December's eve..."He was a monster spawned from a childhood of vile corruption, nurtured in the putrefying hell of Vietnam. Six foot seven and five hundred pounds — a coagulated mountain of seething hate. But behind the soulless eyes lurked a burning intelligence — an animal cunning infinitely superior to anything on four legs.And the monster had come to Chicago.Homicide detective Jack Eichord had never known a psychopath like it. This was no run-of-the-mill killing machine. This was a butcher who believed in job satisfaction. A serial murderer so utterly depraved that he devoured the hearts of his victims. There wasn't a killer on earth who took life so efficiently, so sadistically — or so often. And if he gets his way, there won't be enough lives left for anyone else to try...
language: English
title: A Slash Above the Rest Slob
titlecomplete: A Slash Above the Rest Slob
genres: Fiction, Pulp, Dark, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Splatterpunk, Horror, Novels, Crime
ratings_count: 459
series: Chaingang, Jack Eichord
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Pan Books