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9987
by Nik Jones
Fiction, Thriller
Tonto Books 19 January 2009
ISBN 9780955632662, paperback, rrp £7.99
The shop is everything to him – always neat and tidy, safe and reliable, the rental DVDs carefully categorised, alphabetised and memorised. He thinks he knows his customers, until the bloodstains begin to appear – on grubby banknotes, on porn DVDs, and on the shop's fresh new carpet.
Then the girl comes into his life, green eyes and fresh scarlet slashed beneath her thin cotton blouse. He wants to rescue and protect her. He wants to be with her. Forever.
Murky and disturbing, 9987 is a jagged, tragic crime story set in a disturbing, uncaring world where only three things are constant: fantasy, loneliness and love.
9987 has been recently selected to be one of The Read Regional Campaign's books for 2009.
'Gripping, cinematic, voyeuristic. A delightfully disturbing debut.' – Caroline Smailes (Black Boxes, In Search of Adam)
'The tension Jones builds as the story unravels is superb and the finale is so macabre, it is one you will remember for some time. The plot weaves and twists and turn and all knits together grimly for a deranged end. 9987 is one disturbing, brilliant debut.' - The Crack (Feb 09)
“An edgy thriller. Blood soaked and riddled with voyeuristic stalkings and weird relationships” - The Journal Culture Magazine
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