{"product_id":"headhunters-9780099739517","title":"Headhunters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from his bestselling study of violence, \u003ci\u003eThe Football Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing loads his characters up with enough interior life, but it's the raw energy of their interactions - the beano to Blackpool, the punch-ups, the casual fucks, the family skeletons and the unburied fantasies - that make this excellent book run -- Steve Grant * Time Out *\u003cbr\u003eSexy, dirty, violent, sad, funny: in fact it has just about everything you could want from a book on contemporary working-class life in London -- Stephen Chamberlain * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003eAn odyssey into southern English blue-collar manners as King deconstructs the stereotype of Essex Man and his outer London contemporaries and finds rather more complex attitudes towards gender and class than the tabloid image suggests -- Teddy Jamieson * The List *\u003cbr\u003eThe realism and political edge echoes Alan Bleasdale's \u003ci\u003eBoys from the Blackstuff\u003c\/i\u003e -- John Williams * GQ *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017533030743,"sku":"9780099739517","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099739517.jpg?v=1750773860","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/headhunters-9780099739517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}