Hollow Bible by Connor de Bruler is a first-hand account of the life of Basil Shaver. With his gun stored away inside
of a hollowed-out King James Bible, he writes his story on a series of yellow legal pads while squatting in a coastal
motel amid the onset of a category-five hurricane. Fueled by sorrow and desperation, he reflects on being sold into
sex slavery as a child, his days running drugs along the South Carolina coast for an Eastern-European criminal
organization, rescuing the love of his life, and his nationwide spree of loanshark robberies.
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Hollow Bible elevates the lurid subject matter from glamorized shock to real poetry...a thorny vine that grows through a lava field. Violence, drugs, and filth, de Bruler does it better than most."
- Paul d Miller,
Albrecht Drue, Ghostpuncher "Try to look away."
- Jesse McKinnell,
Anarchy and Other Lies
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