Before I leave on my annual pilgrimage to Mount Ruapehu...
This isn't my work, but a good (if slightly neglected) friend has his stuff up on Amazon and it's free for the next few days:
Night's Favor
Valentine’s an ordinary guy with ordinary problems. His boss is an asshole. He’s an alcoholic. And he’s getting that middle age spread just a bit too early. One night - the one night he can’t remember - changes everything. What happened at the popular downtown bar, The Elephant Blues? Why is Biomne, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, so interested in him - and the virus he carries? How is he getting stronger, faster, and more fit? And what’s the connection between Valentine and the criminally insane Russian, Volk?
I haven't read it yet - I'm saving it for my snowboarding trip this month. But if it's half as wittty and cutting as Richard Parry is in person it'll be a cracking read.
Besides which, I owe him for that night in Instanbul with the gigolo, the untraceable cell-phone and the midget elephant shrew wrangler. So read it for my sake, so that my secret shame remains exactly that.
Night's Favor
Valentine’s an ordinary guy with ordinary problems. His boss is an asshole. He’s an alcoholic. And he’s getting that middle age spread just a bit too early. One night - the one night he can’t remember - changes everything. What happened at the popular downtown bar, The Elephant Blues? Why is Biomne, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, so interested in him - and the virus he carries? How is he getting stronger, faster, and more fit? And what’s the connection between Valentine and the criminally insane Russian, Volk?
I haven't read it yet - I'm saving it for my snowboarding trip this month. But if it's half as wittty and cutting as Richard Parry is in person it'll be a cracking read.
Besides which, I owe him for that night in Instanbul with the gigolo, the untraceable cell-phone and the midget elephant shrew wrangler. So read it for my sake, so that my secret shame remains exactly that.