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´A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language´ Independent

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Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own.

Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson´s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting to be narrated.

At its centre is the mesmeric, doomed Nicola Six, destined to be murdered on her 35th birthday. Around her: the disreputable men who might yet turn out to be her killer. All Samson has to do is to write Nicola´s story as it happens, and savour in this one last gift that life has granted him.

´A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language´ Independent

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"A profound work, it´s also the best novel ever written about pub darts." John Sutherland The Times

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Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

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