Ghosts of West Baltimore (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940885629)

"Save the Westside, save the world"

Our hero, Worm, has just been released from Sinai Hospital in West Baltimore after losing an eye and suffering a soon-to-be fatal blast of radiation. A rabbi believing himself to be the messiah plans to unleash an unspeakable evil on the same Park Heights neighborhood in which our hero has been placed by the state. Meanwhile, a predatory probation officer with a proclivity for research chemicals and ultra-violence, stalks his human caseload, terrorizing his "boas" as sickness rots his brain.

With a body full of ionized cells, expensive medicine that Medicaid won't cover, and a time-sensitive placement at a halfway house for critically injured felons, can Worm save the city, again, without violating the terms of his probation?"

"Visceral and grounded, but with a kind of ineffable strangeness wound into it. Simmons is carving out a space that feels specifically his own." - Brian Evenson

Ghosts of West Baltimore is the sequel to Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books - 2022)

Author: J. David Osborne, David Simmons
ISBN-10: 1940885620
ISBN-13: 9781940885629
Publisher: Broken River Books
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2023
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d