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Christopher brookmyre-a big boy did it and ran away .

Book Jacket.
Real LifeTM (Trademark) blows. Just ask Raymond Ash. As a student, he and his friend Simon thought their futures would be paved with gold discs, gigs and groupies. Instead he's found himself in his thirties, a nervous new father and an even more nervous new English teacher, facing the fact that responsibility has no Escape key.
Small wonder that he takes refuge living a virtual existence online. Everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs. for others it's the bottle, while for his old mate Simon, it's serial murder, mass
slaughter and professional assassination.
It's a lifestyle not a million miles from rock-star dreams: international travel, seven- figure pay cheques, adrenalin rushes and, of course, world-wide notoriety. Simon may have sucked as a lead singer, but as 'the Black Spirit' he's number one with a bullet. More hits than Lennon and McCartney. A performer guaranteed to blow you away.
The last thing on Ray's troubled mind is a band reunion. For one thing, theirs wasn't exactly an amicable split, but a slightly larger obstacle is that Simon has been dead for three years. So when Ray glimpses him walking through Glasgow Airport, he assumes he's seeing things, until Real LifeTM starts getting weirder and more violent than any computer game...

Also by Christopher Brookmyre
QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING
COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
ONE FINE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
BOILING A FROG

little, brown and company
A Little, Brown Book.
First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Little, Brown and Company
Copyright (c) 2001 Christopher Brookmyre

'Crime Scene Part One' written by Greg Dulli.
(c) 1996 Kali Nichta Music/Warner-Tamerlane Music BMI.
From the album Black Love by The Afghan Whigs.
Lyrics reproduced by kind permission.

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All characters in this publication are fictitious
and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,
is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
HARDBACK ISBN 0 316 85743 2
C FORMAT ISBN 0 349 11467 6
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Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc.
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