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A dazzling and propulsive new novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Aftermath, adapted into a film starring Alexander Skarsg†rd and Keira Knightley. Hurtling across 1980s America, this wildly original story is full of characters you´ll never forget.

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´I killed Joe once, in a manner of speaking. But not twice. Not in the way you mean.´

Twenty-four year-old Welshman Llew Jones is in jail. All he wanted was to see America and write about it. Then he met the extraordinary Butterfly Joe and his freakish family and got caught up in an adventure that got way, way out of control. Now his friend´s gone and Llew has to give his side of the story . . .

Part neo-gothic thriller, part existential road trip, part morality tale, The Killing of Butterfly Joe by Rhidian Brook is a thrilling, funny and epic story of experience, desire, friendship and family. It´s about leaving the life of introspection behind to participate in the Great American Dream: the one that takes you from ´rags to riches via pitches´. It´s about the end of innocence and the dawn of consequence; the forces of revenge pitted against the powers of forgiveness; and, ultimately, the search for freedom and self-definition.

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Brook, Rhidian
Rhidian Brook is an award-winning writer of fiction. His first novel, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, won several prizes including The Somerset Maugham Award. His third, The Aftermath, is an international bestseller and has been translated into twenty-five languages and made into a major motion picture. He has written for television and the screen and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4´s Thought For The Day. He once had a job selling butterflies in glass cases.

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