A Snowball In Hell, 9780349120515
Paperback
Celebrity killer streams murders, viewers vote, and chaos ensues.

A Snowball In Hell

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2009

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Summary

A Snowball In Hell: When Celebrity Meets Carnage

If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He’s also got the media taped - by the simple expedient of by-passing them completely and posting real-time coverage of his killings on the internet. He’s got viewing figures to make the world’s TV executives gasp in envy, and he’s pull…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349120515
ISBN-10:034912051X
Series:Angelique De Xavier
Author:Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:30 June 2009
Weight:280g
Dimensions:199mm x 128mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Brookmyre is back to what he does better than anyone else: bloodgushing action married to razor-sharp, foul-mouthed satire that shows he doesn’t so much have his finger on the pulse of popular culture as an open razor to its carotid artery’ Daily Express ‘A bracing read from a writer who rugby-tackles contemporary issues with vim and black wit - The London Paper ‘A cult classic in waiting’

Aberdeen Press & Journal ‘A thriller that entertains to the final page - Financial Times ‘Prepare for a few hours of remote-control-free, evil brilliance’ Daily Record ‘Brilliant and hilarious’

Guardian

About The Author

Christopher Brookmyre

Christopher Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full time novelist. He is the winner of the 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, and his novel All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye won the 2006 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Fiction.

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