THE PRICE YOU PAY PB – AIDAN TRUHEN

A smart alec New York cocaine dealer discovers there s a hit out on him and decides the best course of action is to take bloody – and amusingly creative – revenge Sun Get mad, get even, get paid. What kind of loser stops at getting even? Didi s dead. That s sad. Jack Price isn t sad, because Jack doesn t care about Didi. Jack is just angry, because if anyone was going to brutally murder his bad-tempered old neighbour, it was him. But when Jack takes matters into his own hands, he gets a contract taken out on him by an internationally renowned terrorist organisation. Which frankly seems overkill. Jack s just your average high-class coke dealer, after all. On a level playing field against a team of professional killers, he wouldn t stand a chance. But Jack Price doesn t play fair. And Jack Price is going to make these guys pay. The Price You Pay is brilliant, a latticework of barbed jokes and subtle observations and inventive misbehaviours, a high-end thriller, relentlessly knowing, relentlessly brutal. It reads like Martin Amis on mescaline New York Times