In the finest tradition of William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon, comes a strong American author writing in the great American paranoiac's voice as every page busts forth with a wild and elusive prose that takes the reader on a wild ride where anything becomes a possibility. With The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, Charles Talkoff combs the deepest fathoms of a paranoiac's nightmares and brings back with him his vision and homage to the deeper, darker secrets of the human psyche in the post-9/11 world.

The Ministry of Ambiance, Fluffy-eared Generals, Special Agent Automatic Turpentine, Katzenberg's Super Atomic Piston Ring, Mr. Jellybean and Agency men all vie for your thoughts. Welcome to a post-9/11 paranoid world that would have had Hoover dancing in his closet.

Charles Talkoff is from New York and currently resides in Baltimore. His short stories and other works have appeared in such publications as Undergroundvoices, the Urbanite, the Midway Journal, JMWW, and 3 Quarters. "The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover", is his first novel.

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"Talkoff is . . . a serial killer having his way with the entire body of literature, art, and popular culture"

Jed Birmingham, Author