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From the acclaimed writer of Knockemstiff—called “powerful, amazing, exceptional” by the L A Times—comes a captivating and dim vision of America that provides fictional exhilaration in the greatest level. Within The Demon Constantly, Mark Ray Pollock has created a book that marries the intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural-Born Killers with the Medieval and spiritual over­tones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Occur rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Demon Constantly uses a cast of weird and persuasive figures in the end-of World-War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented expert of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t conserve his stunning wife, Charlotte, from an unpleasant death by cancer regardless of just how much sacrifi­cial bloodstream he flows on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of sequential kill­ers, who troll America’s freeways trying to find appropriate designs to picture and exterminate.