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ISBN: 1901982289
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Price: £7.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 320pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: September 1999

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack O'Connell won the ($50,000) 1990 Mysterious Press Discovery Contest for the Best First Crime Novel for Box Nine. He is also the author of Word Made Flesh and Wireless both published by No Exit. He is a magazine editor and schlemiel and lives in Massachusetts.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

The scene is Quinsigamond, a decaying New England factory town, a model locale of turn-of-the-century chaos. An activist priest meets a grisly death in his own cathedral. The crime has all the hallmarks of a routine Bangok Park gang killing. But the perp is no everyday low-life but a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in search of the jammers, particularly the infamous O'Zebedee brothers who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their singular brand of subversive diatribe.

Detective Hannah Shaw, Bangok Park's undisputed overseer, tracks Speer's enraged quest to Wireless, the funky retro-radio nightclub and epicentre of the diverse jammer subculture. Shaw and/or the Wireless crew must stop the defrocked Fed or fall prey to a campaign of censorship, violence and death.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...has a kind of hallucinatory fascination...amazing in its density, power, richness of detail, humour and irony...a dazzling piece of work. One of the year's 10 best!..." - L.A.Times

"...Unmissable stuff for the adventurous reader...." - Brian Ritterspak, Crime Time Online