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Title	:	Kiss Me, Judas (Phineas Poe #1)
Author	:	Will Christopher Baer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 316 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2006 by MacAdam/Cage Publishing (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Noir. Crime. Thriller. Contemporary. Novels

Kiss Me, Judas (Phineas Poe #1) Paperback | Pages: 316 pages

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Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to his room and wakes the next morning in a bathtub full of blood and ice, missing a kidney.

Dragging himself from a hospital bed, Phineas discovers he wants to be with Jude like a hunger -- and he wants to find her and kill her. Falling for her is the start of a twisted love story that takes him from the snowy streets of Denver to the high plains of Texas where the boundaries between torturer and victim, killer and accomplice, become nightmarishly distorted.

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Original Title:	Kiss Me, Judas
ISBN:	1596921862 (ISBN13: 9781596921863)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Phineas Poe #1

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This book hasn't been around for that long, but I honestly cannot tell you how many times I have read and re-read this. Easily one of my favorite, favorite books.

Kiss Me, Judas. A story about a man whose kidney is stolen by a prostitute. Can that urban legend be anything but the stale center of an overtired premise? Apparantly, it CAN be something more.Will Christopher Baer's writing is edgy, visceral, and almost nauseating in its effectiveness. Nauseating in the same way that leaping off a cliff can be nauseating. Phineas Poe, the central character of the novel, starts the novel kidney-less and on the verge of death, and for the rest of the story he

HUH???What did I just read? I'm so confused. I had high hopes. The plot sounded so interesting. I was hoping for a strange, dark, twisted kind of story à la Chuck Palahniuk. This was strange, all right, but it was also bad. I strongly disliked the writing style of this book. How do you make such short sentences sound so rambling? No descriptions, no quotation marks. I felt utterly lost. Throughout the entire book, I had no idea what was real and what wasn't real. And, yeah, I get it. I wasn't

Very sharply written. You'll have to search far and wide to find another book that employs so many tasty metaphors. Puzzling why it was marketed with a b-grade title and a b-grade cover.

Kiss Me Judas had me constantly feeling as though I'd stepped off a mental Tilt-A-Whirl. While it's never confusing, it's often confounding and Baer gives the reader just enough information to keep up with the wild pace. Kiss Me Judas is dark, gritty, endearing, and confusing -- it is the essence of neo-noir.The novel starts with a cliched urban legend -- the protagonist, Phineas Poe, wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidney missing and revenge on his mind. He falls in love with the

An intriguing story that manages to not answer many of the questions it present.. though it offers some options as what they could be.. I was hesitant to finish the last 30 pages or so.. as I wanted more, or something else, or basically not the ending as it is written.. its bittersweet, but also feels like it fell apart in the transition from 3rd to 4th act and couldn't quite recover.3.5/5 rounded up because i enjoyed the premise and the writing.will likely revisit in a couple years.

The premise sounds hackneyed and unlikely: messed-up ex-cop meets a woman in a bar, gets drunk, fools around, and wakes up in an ice-filled bathtub, missing his kidney. The stuff of urban legend. But Baer takes this absurd idea and turns it into a hallucinatory, melancholy, gorgeously written novel. The protagonist, Poe, skates along the very edges of sanity in his search for the woman-- who he's a little in love (or at least lust) with-- and his journey brings him into contact with an