Martin Amis’ inventive investigation of a war criminal, which reverses time as one man’s life races backward towards an appalling past.
This dark, funny and relentlessly paced Martin Amis novel explores contemporary culture through a gallery of unique - and often unlovely - characters.
When Xan Meo is assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers both head injury, and personality change. The familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. Welcome to their inverted worlds: the ‘yellow’ journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the vengeful corpse determined, even in death, to destroy his spouse.
Martin Amis
About the Author
Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fictionOther nominated books by Martin Amis
