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The
2004 Award
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Dead Air by Iain Banks |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A
loft apartment in London's East End; cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment
slated for the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock
attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the roof towards
a deserted car park a hundred feet below. Other guests join in and soon
half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted
tarmac…just as mobiles start to ring, and the apartment's remaining
TV is turned on, because apparently a plane has just crashed into the World
Trade Centre… Iain Banks' daring new novel starts with a bang and then accelerates through one man's political obsessions, manic media manipulations and wildly dangerous private life, speeding through a London of pubs, clubs, and geezers of extreme dodginess to a twinned climax of nail-shredding intensity. A novel about politics, trust, paranoia, and - perhaps - redemption, Dead Air is Iain Banks at his coruscating best. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Iain Banks sprang to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Since then he has gained enormous and popular critical acclaim with further works of both fiction and science fiction. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers. In 1996 his number one bestseller, The Crow Road, was adapted for television. Iain Banks lives in Fife, Scotland. |
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