[who did it] Berkley/Diamond; March, 1992 (mass-market paperback).

[chance of gettin'] One of the harder ones, but you can find it used if you look enough. You can get a signed copy from The Official Edward Lee Bookstore.

[the skinny] What can you say about a novel whose first line is “They cooked heads”? Another model that Lee would later exploit to infamousness--sexually psychopathic rednecks--had its inception here. (Sample: after shattering a girl’s spine, raping her, and then throwing her out of a moving station wagon, Lead Psycho Redneck Richard “Duke” Belluxi kindly remarks “You know somethin’? I ain’t had me this much fun since high school.”) We won’t ponder as to exactly where Duke went to high school. A regularly recurring Lee sub-character, the archeologist Professor Fredrick F. Fredrick, makes his debut here (Does the F stand for Fredrick? Lee won’t tell.); and you may find this to be the most erotic of his mass-market novels. What’s it about? Refer to title.