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Muscle

Alan Trotter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:3rd Sep '20

Should be back in stock very soon

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A mind-bending slice of pulp fiction, which takes a traditional noir story of detectives, toughs and femmes fatales and pushes it to the limits of our imagination.

They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions.

Until one night over the poker table, they encounter a pulp writer with wild ideas and an unscrupulous private detective, leading them into what is either a classic mystery, a senseless maze of corpses, or an inextricable fever dream .

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and --_. They're the kind of men capable of extracting apologies and reparations, of teaching you a chilling lesson. They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions.

Until one night over the poker table, they encounter a pulp writer with wild ideas and an unscrupulous private detective, leading them into what is either a classic mystery, a senseless maze of corpses, or an inextricable fever dream . . .

Drunk on cinematic and literary influence, Muscle is a slice of noir fiction in collapse, a ceaselessly imaginative story of violence, boredom and madness.

ISBN: 9780571352227

Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 15mm

Weight: 230g

288 pages

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