Christopher X. Brodeur has a book. Holy crap!

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Rumble in the Jungle Perverted Little Creep: Mayor Giuliani vs. Mayor Brodeur By Christopher X. Brodeur extreme NY, 120 pages, $12 If Christopher X. Brodeur's letters to the editor were all published by their targets, CXB would be the city's most famous set of initials, appearing daily beneath long, rambling howls against hypocrisy and beside withering caricatures of politicians, editors and critics. Like the poet Charles Olson, who in his dotage filled up the Gloucester Daily Times with endless poem-letters about town sanitation and the decline of Western Civilization, Brodeur would be the court jester with a death-wish and in-your-face ombudsman for every paper in town. But most of Brodeur's prodigious correspondence goes unread, unpublished and unrequited, thanks to firewalls and email filters. New York Press is the longtime and ambivalent exception.

Try as local editors might, they can never completely block out the Brode, because CXB is a master of disguise, an Inspector Clouseau with creative facial hair. This skill is on full display in Perverted Little Creep, which is part illustrated Common Sense for the New York Voter and part Jerky Boyz. The focus is on the author's one-man guerrilla info war against the former mayor, especially the use of ninja radio tactics. On more than 20 occasions, Brodeur snuck past screeners on Giuliani's weekly WABC call-in show to hurl the mayor's hypocrisies and failures back in his face. It is from these confrontations that the title is drawn. (Rudy also called Brodeur a "sick pervert" and "crazy nut." The Catholic mayor always was a better cross-dresser than he was a curser.)

Why did Brodeur hound Giuliani like a maniac? Because he thought Giuliani was an astoundingly stupid criminal of a politician with fascistic tendencies. Brodeur is a misanthrope who reserves a deeper, born-to-hate reaction for Rudy, the very mention of whom sends the author into a spitting diatribe or a frenzy of vicious cartooning.

Perverted Little Creep is a funny little mess, a collection of rants and comics that reflect the workings of Brodeur's uniquely pugilistic brain, which will likely end up splattered against a brick wall sooner rather than later. When that happens, obit writers can look here for accounts of Brodeur's numerous unlawful arrests, the subsequent trials (more than one settled out of court in CXB's favor for hefty sums), his scuffle with Judge Judith Levitt and his month-long stint at Rikers as the island's most talkative jail bitch.

But beneath Brodeur's "I dare you to kick my ass" jester act is a sense of civic duty so old-fashioned it should have a crew cut. Brodeur is pissed that Giuliani gave himself a 50 percent pay raise when thousands of street curbs aren't wheelchair accessible; that Giuliani had street artist Robert Lederman arrested 41 times-each arrest bounced-for exercising his First Amendment rights; that Giuliani squandered city revenues while handing out tax breaks to his rich cronies.

In screaming about all this, Brodeur proves himself a better cartoonist and letter-writer than essayist. But in those instances where he can control his rage long enough to construct an argument, he's usually right. And that juror from Brodeur's 1999 trial who said, "If there were more people like [CXB] Hitler wouldn't have risen to power"? He was probably right, too.

Perverted Little Creep is available at Amazon.com and MayorBrodeur.com. It will also be at the book's launch party, to which the public is invited: Thurs., Feb. 29 at Triangulo, 675 Hudson St. #3N (betw. 13th & 14th Sts.), 7, free.