If You're Looking for a Phenomenal Book ...

... go here. Buy this book. No, you can't buy a regular book or an e-book - it's an Audible.com exclusive. You can listen to it on your computer or your iPad or other device thingy, or burn to CDs and listen to in your car. And, look, you can get it in a free trial or for a $7.49 trial.

This is a phenomenal book, probably the best I've read this year. (And yep, I read it, because I saw it in manuscript format - but I've heard the two narrators are marvelous.)

It's enticing and gritting, intoxicating and heart-breaking all at the same time. I don't know when a book has so swept me up, picked me up and taken me along every step of the way, looking through the character's eyes as things unfold. I'm there, every step of the way.

But don't take my word for it - here's what Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone) had to say:

"Narrated by a failed writer who has notions of literary redemption suddenly sparked awake again, it is an audaciously plotted adventure in the unglamorous America. Coleman has a lot to say about the psychology of a writer's life, ethics or their absence, and a great eye for the world around us. It is a confessional but propulsive novel, bizarre at times, touching, expertly paced and fresh."

The book is Gun Church, by Reed Farrel Coleman, which he describes loosely as Wonder Boys meets Fight Club, with guns. (Note to tender readers: This means it's decidedly not PG rated.) This isn't a series book like most of his others, and in my opinion, it's his best yet. It's a formidable novel. And it will stay with you.

So. Go get it.