A surreal short novel in which several characters from Crew’s novels (The Gospel Singer, his manager Didymus, Fat Man, Margo, Belt) join Duffy Deeter in kidnapping Harry Crews the author, basically because they’re upset over the troubles he’s written them into.

Deeter, a fitness freak who appreciates Hitler for his enthusiasm, drives them in his “modified Winnebago” from Gainesville to Disney World, “there’s something bad wrong here,” to North Carolina to the middle of the desert, somehow.

The group of mental and physical cripples, “only cripples love God” realize that they and Crews will never be free of each other. A bizarre, yet satisfying, novel. ( )