
- 464 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman.
Blake Butler's fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind.
A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris's Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house—where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey—and Darrel, his sinister alter ego—even as Flood's secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis.
A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget.
"This book is like a Rorschach blot made of blood." —Jenny Offill, National Bestselling Author of Dept. of Speculation
"A bible of sacred insight into our mortal, violent, persistent condition, told through an advanced, near-holographic species of writing. . . . You'll think about it daily and return to it compulsively; it will leave you with fever dreams of the highest possible resolution." —Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- One: The Part About Gravey
- Two: The Part About the Killing
- Three: The Part About Flood (In the City of Sod)
- Four: The Part About America
- Five: The Part About Darrel
- About the Author
- Also by Blake Butler
- Back Ad
- Copyright
- About the Publisher