It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the man, he seems a nonentity, and you quite fancy his wife. And there's no chance of being caught. Sean is a drifter, working as a building labourer and waiting for something to happen. When Sean is offered easy money to tail someone and even more easy money to dispose of him, it's all more tempting than you might think. Except when you realize that you've been led up the garden path the whole way...KING OF THE ANTS is dark, disturbing and violently comic. In the tradition of both Joe Orton and Iain Banks, Charlie Higson pinpoints the casual vagaries of evil and its attendant powers. Unnerving, horribly accurate and wickedly enjoyable, it remains Higson's finest book.
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'Funny, very tough and full of action' Patricia Highsmith 'A brave, abrasive, alarmingly realistic debut ' DAILY MAIL 'Uncoils with wit and imagination' TIME OUT
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Charlie Higson is now fully established as a comic (THE FAST SHOW) and novelist.
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This is the vilest, most stomach churning book I have ever read! Oh, except for Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen, also by Charlie Higson. I haven't laughed so much in years and I don't think a book has ever made me feel physically sick before, yet this does it repeatedly...love it! Keep up the good work! Can't wait to read the rest of his books!
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Of all of Charlie Higsons novels this for me is the best. Mixes comedy along with a gruesome reality of violence and has a pace that makes you not wanting to leave the book alone. Brilliant!
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Even being familiar with much of Charlie Higson's TV work I was unsure what to expect from his novels. I was not disappointed. This is one of the best-written books I have ever read, twisting and turning towards a brilliant conclusion. Another TV comedy writer - Rob Newman - writes in a similarly bleak and gritty style but Newman's book "Manners" left me depressed. This did the exact opposite and shows that okay, the world isn't perfect, but we can all succeed in it. It is rare that a book captures my attention so much that I really can't put it down but "King of the Ants" did just that. I really can't recommend it highly enough.
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Deeply sinister
I have read several of Higson's books and this one always sticks in my mind due to several very dark episodes in the story. Read more
Published on 10 July 2009 by M. Clark
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book - but wouldn't call it a comedy
I did enjoy the book and it was very violent and gruesome. However, I wouldn't call it a comedy. Sure, some of the dialog had witty comments but as a whole it wont have you rolling... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2005 by "jimmacaulay"
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Dark, sadistic and VERY violent, but NOT funny!
I work in a bookshop. I was a fan of the Fast Show. I even thought the Swiss Tony spin-off was quite funny. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2004 by Mark Philpott
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Fast, hard. With slick, violence that characterises his work
I love Higson's stories they race from start to finish making the reader laugh and squirm, and I often found myself squirming at the thought of what I had just laughed at. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 1999
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