Acid Casuals

Présentation de l'éditeur Estela, who used to be Paul but has just had the operation, returns to Manchester on a business trip. The business - to kill her ex-boss, a club owner and money launderer - entails encounters with a whole posse of Mancunian lowlifes, dodgy bouncers, bent coppers, Moss Side gangsters, DJs and all kinds of drugs and sex. The dialogue is sharp, the setting realistically slimy, the action well over the top. Revue de presse ?A hard-hitting British hit job... the new face of British crime? Time Out ?Best debut crime novel of the year... Bleakly comic and highly inventive. Will do nothing for Manchester?s new image? Daily Telegraph ?Written with a confidence and a power rare in a first novel... the dialogue is sharp and mega-hip; and Blincoe manages to make his main cast not only believable but ultimately sad and sympathetic? The Times Biographie de l'auteur Nicholas Blincoe was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and now lives in London. Describing himself as 'a one-time Doctor of Philosophy, an ex-Rapper signed to Factory Records (as part of Meat Mouth) and the aspiring High Priest of the New Pulp Literature, UK Tabernacle' he is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Acid Casuals, Jello Salad (both published by Serpent's Tail), and Manchester Slingback. He recently co-edited the acclaimed anthology All Hail the New Puritans.