Crumple Zone
Pbk published April 2000 by Sceptre at £10.00
ISBN: 0340749970
Summer in the City and the cracks are beginning to show...
Cee Harper is a 24-year-old drama teacher in west London who arrives home one summer day to find her flat burgled and her wayward brother Dennie mysteriously missing.
From here she is sucked into the underbelly of the city, and immersed in a cast of vivid characters. There's nuclear-suntanned single mum Sabine, 500-watt-mouthed crackhead villain Georgio Georgianou, Ootie the local shop owner and an array of urban undesirables and wannabe London gangsters.
Crumple Zone is the hilarious sequel to the highly acclaimed Curvylovebox.
Nick Barlay is currently working on his third novel, Hooky Gear.
The Dope Priest
Pbk published June 2000 by Sceptre at £6.99
ISBN: 0340750456
Holy Land, Holy Mayhem...
When ex-con David Preston flies in to help out an old accomplice with a property deal in the Middle East he's looking forward to a semi-holiday. But as soon as he steps off the plane things go wrong and he's soon attracting the attentions of the Israeli Secret Service, Russian drug czars, a Lite FM DJ, some chicken farmers, hit men, and a very persuasive singing nun, as he finds himself embroiled in a caper that is going to turn out to be anything but a holiday...
Nicholas Blincoe is the author of three previous novels. The last, Manchester Slingback, won the 1998 CWA Silver Dagger Award.
The Bulls
Pbk published June 2000 by Sceptre at £10.00
ISBN: 0340718706
31-year-old Victor Castillo lands a job at a top investment firm after saving the CEO's son's life following a boating accident. He quickly rises to prominence but unwittingly gets caught up in a plan to crash the market.
All hell breaks loose when one of the fund managers panics and begins selling before the appointed time. And suddenly, what started out as financial irregularity could soon end in murder. The Bulls recreates the all too believably frightening world of global finances and the dark forces that drive it.
Douglas Rushkoff has been described by Timothy Leary as 'one of the great thinkers of our time'. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The Ecstasy Club.
One Good Thing
Pbk published April 2000 by Sceptre at £6.99
ISBN: 0340671912
An Existential Screwball Mystery
A fast and blackly funny novel with all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.
Ex-bongo band star Harry Butler doesn't wake up to a mid-life crisis on his 47th birthday. He likes his life. Thanks to the salary made by his adored if slightly flabby wife, he spends his days writing his eagerly awaited first novel in their Manhattan tenement and keeping in shape, or delivering the occasional singing telegram. But that morning he sees an unknown body fall past his window, which proves the catalyst for a series of lies, misunderstandings, and unlucky coincidences. Suddenly, everything that Harry holds dear is under threat.
Rebecca Stowe was born in Michigan and currently lives in New York State. This is her third novel, following Not the End of the World and The Shadow of Desire.