- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing; 1st edition (5 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1608604896
- ISBN-13: 978-1608604890
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,377,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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During the postmodern boom of Blair’s Britain, two well-meaning drug dealers on the verge of becoming respectable businessmen become embroiled in a surreal gangster heist. Tony, a West London drug dealer, attempts to start a legitimate business around a new age herbal pill that provides “natural highs.” In order to secure the cash for their start up venture, he strikes a deal with a kooky English aristocrat. Their plans go askew, however, when Richard, their lawyer and long term friend, involves them in his own shady dealings. Richard acquires an international bearer bond worth $100 million which belongs to Poncho Khan, a notorious Indian Crime boss. In a time when mass consumerism and licentious hedonism are the dominant features of London society, the three men attempt to outsmart the drug king before they fall victim to their own depravity.
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Slide is the "real deal" a ballsy comic portrayal of the bad , the beautiful and the charmingly eccentric .
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book it was so cool I could not put it down. It was amazing, funny and very entertaining from start to finish. I especially loved the eccentric characters and Richard the lawyer I could almost say I've met him. You get embroiled and wrapped up in the bizarre drug infested city full of greed and shady deals. I don't want to spoil it for everyone, but if you love being out in the scene you have got to read this book, it's everyone you know!
Absolutely brilliantly written!!!!
Miss Viola when's your next book out? I want it!
Absolutely brilliantly written!!!!
Miss Viola when's your next book out? I want it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Office Chicks with "pot roast hues", guys with "coke bloat" stomachs and an Indian Crime Boss who is a cross between Elvis (the vegas years) and a Mid West American Business Exec! It's all here in SLIDE a hysterical and inspired observation of gangster life in the big smoke . We learn about the sunny disposition of loveable rogue, West Indian drug dealer, Tony and his family of mobsters including a 3ft tall voodoo obsessed Maths Genuis ,"Big Bernie", who plays GTA and reads the Daily Mirror. We see "society princesses" and "hardcore" thugs mixing it up in London's glitiziest haunts spying on the Chelsea smart set who do lines of coke then knocking back pints with the criminal elite in grimy Grays Inn Road. What is truly captivating about this novel is the sheer diveristy of social classes from the "Harvey Nicks Chicks" who have "throw away morals" to the Essex babes who may have "tango tans" and "silicone boobs" but are honest and genuine . Characters are ruthlessly pilloried like the black man who looks like a "caricature " of himself and the white singer who exclusively adopts black culture as her own . It's mad , bad and funny. The novel takes us behind the scenes of some of London's most exclusive places and then forces the reader to question their own perceptions of class and race and their wider understanding of contemporary society in England which is marred by racial and social tensions; when reality is often too much to deal with and money and power are the key to success. There are some moments of saddness when we hear of grinding poverty through the eyes of a mother who sacrifices everything for her family and her wayward son as she continues to hope that good will prevail. Lighter relief , is found in the realistic and amusing descrpitions a Jewish family when one of the protagonists visits his uncle in London's Hatton Garden and the wonderful society ball attended by a Bollywood starlet who "sways into the room oozing blue heat".
This is writing with delicacy and emotion. The violence in the novel is coloured with references to art and music so we hear of a woman dying who resembles a "Damien Hirst installation without the safety of perspex" and when cherry blossoms fall they do so in a "Milhais echo". Such images are instantly memorable .The novel is a crime fiction but as a purely literary work it scores on all points the flowing poetical images of people and places are original , sharp and beautiful and the use of music and visual art create a tempo and beat to the work that is
distinct and exciting.As a first novel this is one book I thoroughly recomend : stylish bold and highly original I was hooked !
This is writing with delicacy and emotion. The violence in the novel is coloured with references to art and music so we hear of a woman dying who resembles a "Damien Hirst installation without the safety of perspex" and when cherry blossoms fall they do so in a "Milhais echo". Such images are instantly memorable .The novel is a crime fiction but as a purely literary work it scores on all points the flowing poetical images of people and places are original , sharp and beautiful and the use of music and visual art create a tempo and beat to the work that is
distinct and exciting.As a first novel this is one book I thoroughly recomend : stylish bold and highly original I was hooked !
Format:Paperback
I thought this book was modern, funny, smart and really clever . Viola has devised a new style of writing "sonicscatterscript" where she uses sound, lyrical beats , colour and contemporary references to modern culture to describe characters and plot development it's a very exciting use of word play . Some of the more colourful examples inlcude "She was a frills and thrills chick with a slutbmob pout and come shag me stiletoes" Only in a few lines we can guess the physical description of characters . I loved the sharp minimalism of this book sums up in 128 pages everything you need to know about party animals and coke sessions! It's fab for chillax time and holiday nights or road trips after music festivals . Probably won't go down well with "nobodys trying hard to be somebodys" or those with leanings towards the BNP and slasher movies . A scrumptious read .Yum Yum . A mix of Bret Easton Ellis and Tristan Egolf .
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