Blood on the Saddle

by Paul Hammond, Michel Houellebecq, Rafael Reig

Format:	Paperback 192 pages

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Synopsis

Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who've quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people (both 'real' and 'fictional') in their place.

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Published
16/08/2007

Publisher
Serpent's Tail

ISBN
9781852424862

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"'Hilarious, a literary Hellzapoppln' Matt Thorne 'A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery' The Times 'A refreshingly unconventional little book which takes the crime novel into a new dimension... a gloriously absurd spoof, amusing, provocative and occasionally touching' Sunday Telegraph 'Eccentric, dizzying and wonderful' Peter Guttridge, Observer 'A cult classic... he has subverted language, shuffled genres and generally had mucho fun... Blood on the Saddle is your basic science-fiction-detective-western-literary romance, peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined X-rays' Time Magazine"