Word Made Flesh (Paperback)

"A marvelous mystery about the birth and death of language, the strange, chaotic power of the printed page in our sad, high-tech universe, and the need of one cop-turned-tax driver to pull memory from amnesia." - Jerome Charyn, author of Citizen Sidel

"O'Connell tests the boundaries of noir mystery/suspense in this latest mind-boggling installment ... Under the conventions of crime and punishment, O'Connell's nightmarishly original vision of incarnation unflinchingly displays the various harrowing ways words can indeed be made flesh." - Kirkus Review

"Word Made Flesh took my breath away and replaced it with an hallucinatory mixture of nitrous oxide and a cold wind from a future world that's both eerily frightening and erotically mesmerizing. More than anything else that I've read in the last ten years, this is where the writing of the next millenium is going to happen: a brilliant synthesis of science fiction and noir sensibilities." - K.W. Jeter, author of Dr. Adder and Noir

"Word Made Flesh gripped me from beginning to end." - William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist

"The imaginative interplay between genre and theoretical improvisation makes this not only a muscular and rewarding read, but also a thought-provoking one." - Uncut, UK

"To call this novel a noir thriller is like calling the 9th one of Beethoven's symphonies. Jack O'Connell is a writer's writer, and Word Made Flesh is virtuosic. From the first word, he immerses you into barely imaginable darkness of the human psyche. O'Connell's words slice; his images leave you squirming. You'll want to put this book down; in fact, you'll want to take it outside and bury it deep. But you won't be able to. It's the kind of nightmare you don't want to wake up from." - Michael Kimball, author of Undone and Mouth to Mouth

"Jack O'Connell is crime writing's hidden treasure. He has created ... a surrealistic noir quilt that both fascinates and scares the devil out of you ... Gripping, strangely poetic and moving, eye-blinkingly violent, this is a milestone of imaginative writing ...Unmissable." - Time Out (UK) "From its bravura opening to its apocalyptic conclusion, Word Made Flesh is a frightening, exhilarating ride. In four remarkable books, Jack O'Connell has riffed on language, fire-cleansed genre conventions, and stripped the artifice from the modern noir novel, creating a body of work both exciting and entirely original. Word Made Flesh has the power, and permanence, of myth." - George Pelecanos, author of The Sweet Forever

"A writer of terrific gifts." - The Independent, London

"The dark incantations that open and close Word Made Flesh are mesmerizing. The scope of the book links enormous and terrifying acts of imagination ... A potent cocktail of Lovecraft, Poe, and hardcore American noir." - Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

"Think Blade Runner as imagined by Kafka in a dream of Fritz Lang ... A rhetorical exercise in satiric impersonation that's paced, reactive, and laced with the ghosts of screams." - The Guardian, London

"A hardcore work of art, equal parts ultraviolence and poetry. Sucks you in and doesn't let go." - Poppy Z. Brite, author of Exquisite Corpse