The Incurables by Jon Bassoff - 2015

UNREAD. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Copy # 47 of just 52 hardcovers signed on the limitation page by the author Jon Bassoff. This is the DarkFuse Signature Series Book 2. The book is in fine condition but for a light bump to the front corner of the spine top (see pic). The dust jacket is enclosed in a new protective archival cover. Will be carefully packed in a box and mailed with delivery confirmation. We ship by the next business day.
Synopsis:  The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where he’d practiced for nearly thirty years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbitol lobotomy. With an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catatonia, delusions and psychosis, with a procedure as simple and safe as curing a toothache. When he enters the backwater Oklahoma town of Burnwood, however, his own sanity will be tested. Around him swirls a degenerate and delusional cast of characters—a preacher who believes his son to be the Messiah, a demented and violent young prostitute, and a trio of machete-wielding brothers—all weaved into a grotesque narrative that reveals how blind faith in anything can lead to destruction.