Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: morning, one, ugly, quite
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-01-09
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802138616
ISBN-13: 9780802138613

Quite Ugly One Morning is the book that made Christopher Brookmyre a star in his native Britain, establishing his distinctive, scabrously humorous style and breakneck, hell-for-leather narrative pacing. The novel that won the inaugural First Blood Award for the best debut crime novel in the United Kingdom is now available in America for the first time, and comic crime writing on this side of the Atlantic may never be the same. Quite Ugly One Morning introduces Brookmyre’s signature protagonist, the hard-partying, wisecracking investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, who is not afraid to

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: night, middle, day, fine, one
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-03-17
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802139809
ISBN-13: 9780802139801

Like a highball mix of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Brookmyre hits you hard and fast. Now Brookmyre is back with his most lethal book yet: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night. Gavin Hutchinson had it all planned out. A unique "floating holiday experience" on a converted North Sea oil rig, a haven for tourists who want a vacation but without the hassle of actually going anywhere. And what better way to test out his venture than to host a fifteenth-year high school reunion, the biggest social event of his life, except no one remembers who Gavin is. That, and his wife has disc

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: blind, country
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-08-21
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802139191
ISBN-13: 9780802139191

British critics have compared Christopher Brookmyre’s writing to the "sassy, nasty, fast style of the Americans Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen" (The Guardian) and called his work "perpetually in-your-face ... irreverent and stylish" (The Times). Now he returns with another cracked gem of a comic thriller: Country of the Blind. This time, hard-bitten investigative journalist Jack Parlabane -- hero of Brookmyre’s award-winning novel Quite Ugly One Morning-finds himself up to his eyeballs in murder, mayhem, and political intrigue when conservative tabloid media mogul Roland Voss is d

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: world
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-07-08
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802139159
ISBN-13: 9780802139153

The Guardian (London) has called comic-thriller writer Christopher Brookmyre "the next star of the genre". His American debut, Not the End of the World, is a fast and furious novel set in Los Angeles at the near side of the millennium, at a point when the world is about to spin out of control -- and maybe out of existence. When an oceanic research vessel is discovered with all of its crew vanished, it sets off a chain of events that pulls Lt. Larry Freeman of the LAPD out of the ho-hum assignment of overseeing the security for a B-movie film festival and headlong into a frenzied race to stop a

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Abacu
Keywords: frog, boiling
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-05-04
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0349114137
ISBN-13: 9780349114132

Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is experiencing accommodation courtesy of Her Majesty. The fledgling Scottish parliament is in catatonic shock after experiencing its first dose of Westminster sleaze. The Catholic Church of Scotland is taking full advantage of the politicians’ discomfort and is riding high in the polls as the voice of morality. Behind the scenes the truth is obscured by the machinations of the spin doctors and in prison, awa

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Abacu
Keywords: books, abacus
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-05-04
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0349116849
ISBN-13: 9780349116846

Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they’d do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they’re having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it’s affairs, for others it’

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Abacu
Keywords: enemy
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0349116814
ISBN-13: 9780349116815

It was a junket, a freebie. A ’team-building’ weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism - Jack Parlabane. Amid the flying paintballs and flowing Shiraz even the most cynical admit the organisers have pulled some surprises - stalkers in the forest, power cuts in the night, mass mobile phone thefts, disappearing staff, disappearing guests: there’s nothing can bring out people’s hidden strengths or break down inter-personal barriers quit