Muscle

<p>In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They''re the kind of men capable of extracting apologies and reparations, of teaching you a chilling lesson. They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions.<br><br>Until one night over the poker table, they encounter a pulp writer with wild ideas and an unscrupulous private detective, leading them into what is either a classic mystery, a senseless maze of corpses, or an inextricable fever dream . . .<br><br>Drunk on cinematic and literary influence, <i>Muscle </i>is a slice of noir fiction in collapse, a ceaselessly imaginative story of violence, boredom and madness.</p>