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Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlour. But when Mike meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, their lives are irrevocably changed. Small, sexy, smart – and utterly dangerous – Laura instantly spellbinds Mike and leads him into a world of moral depravity, dominated by the sinister presence of her powerful and rich father, Harold Benton. Dressed in safari suits, dining in West End restaurants, Benton drinks only the best of wines and whiskies, imitates Richard Burton, and quotes French poet Baudelaire at every opportunity. He is also without conscience, on a hell-bent mission to mould others to his likeness. Dispatching Baudelaire is about what can happen to the blandest of men when he is seduced by money, power and sex. As we follow Mike on his journey to the heart of darkness, we come to discover that there are few more dangerous animals than an Englishman off balance. Set against the paranoia of early 1990s post-Thatcher London, this is yet another addictive page-turner from Ken Bruen, author of the bestselling Vixen, The Guards and The Killing of the Tinkers – one of the critically acclaimed greats of modern crime and suspense fiction.
Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlour. But when Mike meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, their lives are irrevocably changed. S...
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KEN BRUEN was born in Galway in 1951. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South-East Asia and South America. His writing changed direction after he was tortured during a four-month stint in a Brazilian prison. A film of his novel Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice is currently in production for Pilgrim Pictures, and his White Trilogy (A White Arrest, Taming the Alien and The McDead) has been bought for television by Deep Indigo Productions. He has a PhD in Metaphysics. In 1995 he was a finalist for the First Blood Award for Best First crime Novel.
KEN BRUEN was born in Galway in 1951. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South-East Asia and South America. His writing changed direction after he was tortured during a four-month stint in a Brazilian prison. A film of his novel Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice is c...
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