[Doc Faustus]

Thanks a lot. The title is H8. It's the story of a young pharmacist who lives in an alternate America where serial killers are red hot celebrity athletes and have spawned a subculture called Reap where teenagers dress up like John Wayne Gacy or Jack the Ripper and keep tabs on their favorite killers and their body counts and such. The main character has himself been killing women that he believes are being impregnated by beings from another dimension that turn people into twisted automatons. It's the first of three underground novels, this one about him dealing with killing, his fear of getting famous and praised for it and his girlfriend's obsession with the counterculture that disgusts him. It's basically about someone deciding between the war in their head and the battles that society needs to fight.