Warlock

Perry Brass

Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00 · 1 ratings · 226 pages · Published: 14 Nov 2001
Warlock by Perry Brass
Allen Barrow’s friends are polite, shy men like himself who gather to eat in affordable restaurants and know each other as refugees from their own families. He is a clerk in a bank, dresses frugally, and has a small penis that embarrasses him. One night he meets a man whose presence rivets him. Destry Powars—handsome, vulgar, spectacularly ugly in his behavior and yet disarmingly seductive—has pulled Allen into his orbit and won’t let go. Destry lives in a closed, moneyed world that Allen can only dream about; a world that he can glimpse only through the smoked glass windows of popular media. From generations of impoverished drifters, Powars has been chosen to learn the secret language of wealth, a language based on force, deception, and nerve. But who chose and taught him these “arts”—and what does he really want from Allen? What exactly are the strange Mr. Powars’s dark powers? These are the mysteries that Allen will uncover in Warlock, a novel of international intrigue that is as paralyzing in its suspense as it is voluptuously erotic.

Warlock is a novel about a New York awash in money and yet always a hair away from the bubble’s burst of catastrophe. It is about living outside of the overhyped “New Economy.” If you think I.P.O. [Initial Public Offering] means “I’m Poor, Okay,” then this book speaks directly to you. This is one of Perry Brass’s most compelling stories. Erotic love, surrender, and the total magic of overwhelming needs being met are its main ingredients. It is about our sweetest dreams and worst nightmares coming true . . . and the hard work of warlocks.
Suspenseful. Voluptuously erotic. A demonic, queer Rosemary’s Baby, set in the glittering, international world of greed and power. “In this book, Perry Brass has added to the annals of gay lit.” Richard LaBonte, in Book Marks.
Winner Ippy Award from Independent Publisher Magazine, best gay and lesbian book, 2002.

As gripping as today's headlines exposing the boom-and-bust cycles of the global market that make some men billionaires while others starve, Warlock has solidified Perry Brass's worldwide reputation as "the American Jean Genet."
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