A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
Published on 3. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-349-11684-6 (ISBN)
Description
The first book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from multi-award-winning author Chris Brookmyre.
We all make life choices. Some cause more mayhem than others.
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's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.
PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'In the pantheon of great crime writers'
Elly Griffiths
'Keeps you guessing until the very end'
The Times
'Offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity'
Time Out
We all make life choices. Some cause more mayhem than others.
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's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.
PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'In the pantheon of great crime writers'
Elly Griffiths
'Keeps you guessing until the very end'
The Times
'Offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity'
Time Out
Reviews / Votes
This novel has plenty of verve and dash, with Brookmyre more in your face than a smack from an outraged lover whose bottom you've pinched * Irish Times * This novel has plenty of verve and dash, with Brookmyre more in your face than a smack from an outraged lover whose bottom you've pinched * Irish Times * Brookmyre offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity... Sharply satirical and poignantly funny, this is a gripping and highly entertaining read * Time Out * Brookmyre offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity... Sharply satirical and poignantly funny, this is a gripping and highly entertaining read * Time Out * Hilarious, exhilarating entertainment * Glasgow Herald * Hilarious, exhilarating entertainment * Glasgow Herald * He really can write, with an exhilarating linguistic fluency and keenly subversive intelligence * Scotland on Sunday * He really can write, with an exhilarating linguistic fluency and keenly subversive intelligence * Scotland on Sunday * A bit like a literary computer game, this novel has plenty of verve and dash, with Brookmyre more in your face than a smack from an outraged lover whose bottom you've pinched. * IRISH TIMES * Brookmyre offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity... Sharply satirical and poignantly funny, this is a gripping and highly entertaining read. * TIME OUT * Hilarous, exhilerating entertainment. * GLASGOW HERALD * He really can write, with an exhilerating linguistic fluency and keenly subversive intelligence. * SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-349-11684-6 (9780349116846)
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07/2003
Abacus Books (Sphere)
€28.67
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Person
Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime authors. His Jack Parlabane novels have sold more than one million copies in the UK alone.