”A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.” Sunday TimesLionel Essrog is Brooklyn`s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette`s Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent`s Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.