hammurabi road is a dark redneck noir tale of retribution, backwoods justice, and getting closer to a black bear than was ever dreamed possible. we start off with the eternal triangle - four men ride out in a pick-up truck; three in front and one duct-taped and bound in the back. it's a clear cut case of northern ontario railroad vengeance, served up as cold as a frozen hunting knife. it's a short, fast read - about 15,000 words - and could be best described as an exercise in redneck noir."if harlan ellison, richard matheson and robert bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover dna into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into steve vernon." - bookgasm