Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.? Financial Times Author of controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn , Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He excels in this form, plunging the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness. Although fundamentally concerned with morality, Selby's own sense of humility prevents him from preaching. He offers instead a passionate empathy with the ordinary dreams and aspirations of his characters, a brilliant ear for the urban vernacular and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment his characters. "A major American author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller."? Los Angeles Times "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America."? The New York Times Book Review Novels by Hubert Selby Jr available from Marion Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream and The Willow Tree ..

He's a Russian defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women. An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job.  But former agent Mike Culley is in prison, sold out by his bosses, stripped of his family and everything he holds dear.  Now they'll free to hunt down a killer before he kills again. The CIA has betrayed Culley once.  It won't happen again.  He will find his man.  And with the help of a beautiful reporter, he'll bring him down.  But suddenly the rules change.  Culley's target has answered snatching the one person who means more to Mike Culley than life itself.

Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic. Repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, she becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own demons. Not only does she inadvertently supply him with material for his columns, she represents all Eugene considers to be wrong with contemporary America - a garish and dunce-filled Babylon that Theroux scorches with relentless satire.