‘“Here’s one you won’t get – a paradox. ‘A’ states that everything ‘B’ says is a lie. ‘B’ states that everything ‘A’ says is true.” … “Easy. A and B are lying and mistaken, both and simultaneously. Happens all the time.”’About to quit the failed experiment of civilisation, fake detective Taffy Atom is detained by one last case – a boy with a bomb in his mind. But what’s the trigger?Against a backdrop of buildings the colour of dried blood and a formaldehyde sky above streets filled with cars on their side billowing with smoke, Atom is pursued by cops, mobsters, mercenaries and a mechanical swan. He carries the bomb and trigger through Beerlight City, the single holdout of creative mischief in a world overtaken by the trend-led Fadlands.By the relentless principles of gun karma Aylett’s final Beerlight book lands you in the Delayed Reaction Bar and fixes you a glass of antifreeze with everything in it. Listen to your heart. It will not stop slowly.
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Steve Aylett. Novahead
1 BEERLIGHT STRANGER
2 VALENTINE STREET
3 RING THE BELLS, I’M GOING OUT
4 FIFTY-FIFTY CLOWN
5 VERSUS
6 DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WHOOP
7 THE BATTLE OF STINA GATE
1 HIGH ROLLER
2 HAMMER INTO ANVIL
3 NOT WAVING BUT COOKING
4 THE BATTLE OF SOKO INTERSTATE
5 EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER
1 LOGICAL HARM
2 LAUGHING CAVALIER
3 BYE, MONSTER
4 THE BATTLE OF BETTY’S FORT
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I’d just flicked a spider off the desk, sighed and prepared to rise when the shadow of someone’s head and shoulders appeared on the floor like the edge of a jigsaw piece. A galoot entered. His vibe was blank - I could see aura waste falling away from him like dead seeds. He even went with ‘Prepare to die, Mister Atom.’
‘Right this minute?’ I asked, dubiously. ‘It’s not particularly convenient.’
