Enter the Peerless

<p>Elpenor a newly minted private investigator finds his first case on Craigslist: twenty-nine people have entered an abandoned trailer in rural Indiana and none of them have left. Unable to open the trailer's doors or windows Elpenor enlists two local accomplices a knife grinder (Don the Knife) and a janitor (Hugh Gardener). When they finally gain access they fall into a pocket universe ruled by a godlike being called Fiascoal.</p><p></p><p>Refugees of this world-a depopulated and exact copy of our world-congregate around a web of communities in St. Louis. Elpenor attempts to find the missing people but is instead forced to become the new host of Fiascoal as a communal ritual. His search for the missing in the netherworld and the needs of the hungry petulant god conflict as Don the Knife raises a cult of personality community leaders abuse their authority and Elpenor must decide whether to save the few over the many. That is if he can find a way out of the metaphysical prison he's broken into. Told in a charged high-rhetorical hard-boiled style <em>Enter the Peerless</em> is a detective novel for the paranoiacs and heartsick rejects who know an angel in the dirt when they see one. </p><p></p>