Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn\'s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette\'s Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways.
But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case..
Together with three veterans of the St Vincent\'s Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna.
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn\'s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette\'s Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways