Heat, June, 2001
Highly entertaining black comedy.
Product Description
The most hapless barber in Scotland is back behind the chair, handing out the finest haircuts ever seen in the western hemisphere, in the follow-up to 'The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson'. Having tried to hand himself in to the police, and been rejected as just another Barney Thomson amongst many thousands, Barney returns to what he does best. However, in trying to come to terms with his murder-ridden past, he foolishly joins the nearest branch of Murderer's Anonymous, bringing him once more into contact with the deranged, the criminally insane and the out and out sadistically naughty. In minutes, there is a killer reducing the population of Glasgow on a daily basis, and Barney is soon caught up in this tangled web of death, butchery and Elvis.
Excerpted from Prayer for Barney Thomson, A by Douglas Lindsay. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
He can hear it now. Above the low murmur of the cleric; above the storm and the sound of the rain drumming against the roof and splashing on the floor and pouring through the windows; above the wind whistling through the church, what remains of shattered panes of glass, sucked from their fittings, and smashed on withered stones; above it all he hears the shuffling. A steady dragging across the floor, something low and something evil. It comes his way and he cannot turn to face it…
