"VICIOUS" lives up to its name in the most brutal and primitive way. It's like a roller coaster... but with battery acid and razor blades on the handrails. Smith's most successful and brutal work to date. --- Ronald Kelly (FEAR, HELL'S HOLLOW)

ONE OF BRIAN KEEN'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2009.

Welcome to Hopkins Bend, a small town in backwoods of Tennessee, where residents eat people and local authorities conduct a sex trade. Unlucky travelers often find themselves caught in the city's sinister web. Some end up in captivity, where they are subjected to cruel torture, while others face a much more terrible fate. And underneath it all lies the city's darkest secret - the curse of the vicious, mutated Kincher clan...

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