Sinker

by Jason Johnson

Overview

This game is no indulgence - it's endurance.' Baker Forley wants romance, respect, a career . . . but his only talent is sinking whiskey. Luckily the world's most reviled sport - professional drinking - badly needs new blood. When Baker's washed-up coach, Ratface, swings him an invite to the notorious 'Bullfight' boozing competition in Mallorca, he can feel the big time coming.But, mid-play, his eye wanders to a mysterious Arabian beauty - and he gets decked by a bodyguard. That is, until Baker and Ratface are lured to hear an apology and an offer they can't refuse: 'Teach a billionaire Sheikh to drink like a pro at his strange mansion and he'll make you rich.' Later, as illicit passion flares at the Gaudí-designed labyrinth, Forley discovers the disturbing truth about why he's there - but is he too far gone to escape? An absorbing, irreverent and blackly-comic tale from a unique talent, this story is unlike anything you've read in years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909718555
Publisher:	Liberties Press
Publication date:	06/09/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	217
File size:	215 KB

About the Author

JASON JOHNSON is a Northern Ireland-based journalist and author. His debut novel, Woundlicker (2005), is a ferociously raw story set in fraught Belfast times. With this book, and Alina (2006), he has garnered a reputation for his distinctively gritty style of writing.

Editorial Reviews

"If Carlsberg did the Hunger Games...mad as a bag of spiders but brilliant."

Colin Bateman

"It's to Johnson's credit that the book is accessible and exciting, rattling along like a thriller, barely pausing for breath. It's a cracking book, a jolt to the senses."

The Irish Independent

It's to Johnson's credit that the book is accessible and exciting, rattling along like a thriller, barely pausing for breath. It's a cracking book, a jolt to the senses.

If Carlsberg did the Hunger Games...mad as a bag of spiders but brilliant.

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