"The No.1 bestselling, topical, award-winning, high-octane thriller."
Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. Does Bruce use erection cream? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art?
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"The No.1 bestselling, topical, award-winning, high-octane thriller."
Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. Does Bruce use erection cream? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art?
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The No.1 bestselling, topical, award-winning, high-octane thriller.Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. Does Bruce use erection cream? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art? And most of all, does sugar-pie really love his honeybun?
Critic Reviews
“Serious, morally complex, structurally rich and bitterly funny”
Independent on Sunday
Fierce, garish and frighteningly funny Spectator
An absolute coup of black comedy Daily Telegraph
One of the most brilliantly sustained and focused pieces of satire I've ever read -- Douglas Adams
Killer prose...a viciously funny satire that also works as a tongue-in-cheek thriller The Sunday Times
About the Author
Ben Elton's multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.He is married and has three children.
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Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. How is it possible to get shot dead live? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art? And why, if murder is acceptable on prime-time TV, is the f-word not? WINNER OF THE MACALLAN CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER AWARD
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