Description
Book SynopsisIf you were looking to hire a crack team of criminals to undertake a tricky and delicate burglary, the Bobby Dazzlers would be your worst nightmare. There''s Walter Bowler, a violent bike thief looking to move on to better (or preferably worse) things. There''s the dope dealer and family man, Bill. There''s a cockney half wit called Dean Martin (who must nevertheless be treated with respect because of his ultra-hard cousin, Neville). And then there''s the youngest of the four, a light-fingered youth with a morbid fear of trains. When they''re asked to steal four strange-looking chairs from a museum in the North York Moors, something - everything - is bound to go pear-shaped.
The Bobby Dazzlers follows their stumbling progress in a funny, macabre thriller about jealousy, drugs, media-friendly Yorkshiremen, salmon fishing, modernist chair design and gruesome death (both accidental and pre-meditated), all set against a backdrop of beautiful Georgian architecture and some
Trade Review
'Tough, smart, thrilling, funny... as fresh as a bullet dipped in lavender.' Guardian; 'A sparkling comedy... The collision of two different worlds, the smug North of the chattering classes and its dellnquent underbelly, makes for a delicious comedy of manners.' Sunday Telegraph
