'A moving, angry, exuberant journey into some of menkind's darkest dreams and the redemptive power of his most resilient hopes.' Scotsman

'An isolated valley in the mountains...cut off from civilisation to the extent that time has, literally, stood still. The all-white community could be living in the Old Testament. They go to church, but understand justice only in its crudest sense. Thieves are flogged, adulterers stoned to death...To Flip Lochner, a hard-bitten crime reporter from Cape Town, the whole place is too weird to be true. He has heard stories about the Devil's Valley, but discounted them as folklore...When he visits the community, and finds it a more sinister place than he had imagined, the stage is set for a dystopian fantasy in which the perils of religious fundamentalism are chillingly exposed...the pacing of the story is first-class throughout...

This is the work of a master storyteller' Sunday Telegraph

'Kelman remains unique; this terrain is his.' Time Out
'A stunning collection of 20 short stories...cannot fail to satisfy his fans...He recreates a certain kind of male consciousness, he gets inside the skin of a certain kind of masculinity. There are men in pubs, men in vans, men in dole queues, men on building sites, men playing football, men wanting a fight men "yapping" with other men, and last but not least, men utterly mystified by women...All of them, in some way or other, are struggling to survive in the face of uncertainty, poverty, boredom, failure. They strive to keep awareness of these horrors at bay, while trying also, on the peripheries of consciousness, to grapple with them, overcome them...wonderful writing... This is Kelman flying from strength to strength.' Independent on Sunday

A reporter who has been researching the life of Frances McAlistair, New York's controversial federal prosecutor, is found dead near her apartment, and detectives Dave Milner and Jake Neuman are assigned to the potentially explosive case. The author's previous books include "Nowhere Man".

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