"If you only read one more horror novel this year, make sure this is it." -- Edward Lee, author of The Television and The Bighead " WRETCH is a blood-soaked, drug-fueled spectacle of relentless carnage and chaos, with some of the most violent, off-the-wall characters I've ever encountered in a novel. Nightmarish, unapologetically brutal, and packed with shocking moments. All the triggers." -- Rio Youers, British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of Lola on Fire and No Second Chances "In this Frankenstein meets The Godfather mashup, Wagner tackles everything from how it feels to be a cop in today's world to addictions at every level--booze and drugs, body sculpting, and workouts. But where Wagner's novel really shines is calling out Big Pharma's own addiction to creating the next little blue pill." -- Laura Caldwell, author of Long Way Home , and The Dog Park "Unapologetic in its bloodlust, WRETCH is an intense page turner that's not for the faint of heart. With love for his hometown dripping off each blood-stained page, Jeremy Wagner is to Chicago what some other horror writer is to Bangor Maine.

" -- Del James, author of The Language of Fear , and Consensual Violence " WRETCH is hands-down the darkest book I've read all year, and Derek Hoffman is the most repulsive villain since Rex Miller's Chaingang Bunkowski . Get ready for a ride through Chicago's dark side with some of its seediest residents. Take a long shower after reading this book!" -- Regina Garza Mitchell, author of Shadow of the Vulture " WRETCH is brutal. It's muscled and sleek but brutish in its intent and that intent is to maul you. An engine of bad things and more.this book is a bruise you can't quite explain and can't stop prodding, because that ugly pain reminds you that you exist and in this world, oft times that's punishment." -- John Boden, author of Jedi Summer and Snarl "Jeremy Wagner unleashes a frenzy of escalating violence and deviant madness on the Windy City. Gritty and perverse, WRETCH will shock and enthrall you all the way to its debauched climax!" -- Ryan Harding, Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Transcendental Mutilation.