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Prank! (Paperback)

by Hughes Hag (Author)
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  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Pen Press Publishers (2 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906206937
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906206932
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 788,187 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Fun-loving Paul "Hazy" Hayes spends most of his booze-fuelled time plotting wind-ups. Then during one of his pranks something goes horribly wrong and someone winds up dead. If you were a mate of Hazy's would you help him dispose of the body and cover-up the evidence? Set against the high-octane environment of a World Championship race team we follow Hazy as he battles with friends, foes, lovers and his own conscience and attempts to hold his life and sanity together under the crumbling reality of divorce and self-destruction. Oh, and don't forget the body in the boot of his car.

About the Author
Hag Hughes was brought into the world as the sixties were drawing to a close. A magical time indeed, when love was free and drugs made you happy. The colourful suburbs were interspersed with parks and trees and the only people to have guns were the soldiers.A stark contrast indeed to the streets in which we find ourselves today.His experience is drawn not only from a mis-spent youth of drugs, alcohol and anarchy, but the sobering real life surroundings of motorcycle racing at every level. As a rider he has competed in motocross and road racing in various championships, favouring now the uk endurance series, finishing 3rd in 2006, and still continues to chase that elusive number 1 plate. As a mechanic, manager and team owner, he has also competed in various capacities at World Endurance, British Superbike and World Superbike, but thinks that those number 1 plates may be a little more elusive!Hag has also worked as a test rider, journalist and race product designer throughout the motorcycle industry, as well as graphic design in other fields and now studies various aspects of psychology and behaviour, usually of the female species in various bars around south London.Having lived in Surrey since birth, he continues to do so with his two little angels Bradley and Lara. He has no plans to disappear off to anywhere warmer yet, not till the inland revenue catch up, anyway...A"Prank!A" is Hag Hughes' first novel, his second A"DestdeniedA" is due to be released in early 2009. For advanced notification, please register at; www.haghughes.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars review by Fast Bikes magazine, 4 Jul 2008
We don't do many book reviews at Fast Bikes, but then there aren't that many books that have anything to do with motorbikes that are any good, remotely funny, or have a clue what they're talking about. This one is different.

The author, Hag Hughes, will be familiar to a few exceptionally hardcore readers who recall his appearances in Fast Bikes through the ages. Hag is an (in)famous special builder and endurance racer. He's worked as a test rider, journalist, and race product designer. So, he knows bikes when he writes about them. And wind-ups.

Prank! is set behind the scenes of the World Endurance championship, in the chaotic, drunken, out of control life of factory team chief mechanic Paul `Hazy' Hayes. There's lots of harmless fun, and then a lot of rather harmful fun too. The wholly unpredictable plot follows Hazy as it all starts to go wrong and his life plunges into a desperate spiral of chaos.

The characters are well developed, consistent, and draw real emotional responses. Impressively, Hag doesn't rely too much on bike racing, and doesn't need to, when he could easily have used his knowledge there to prop up the rest of the book and appeal to die-hard bikers at the expense of everyone else. Prank! stands up strongly on its own, so your interest in bikes is a bonus rather than a necessity.

I really got into it, and got through it very quickly because I didn't want to put it down. It's also a damn sight better than Charley Boringman's `Race to Dakar' that I slogged through last summer.

Prank! gets a big thumbs up from me.
Wilko
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Prank!, 6 Jun 2008
By A. P. Hughes "Hag Hughes" (Surrey) - See all my reviews
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Paul (Hazy) Hayes loves a bit of innocent fun, in fact he spends most of his Alcohol fuelled life plotting the next wind up, the next joke and searching for his next victim. He is cruel.
But what if it all goes wrong, and someone gets killed?
Would YOU help him dispose of the body?
Set amongst the colourful and exciting of backdrop of a World Championship motosport team, where success and inspired invention meets abruptly with disaster and desparation. His tale then threads it's way through the curious and usually closed doors of the British film industry in his quest for the ultimate revenge. Hazy then battles with friends, foes, lovers and ultimately his own conscience, as he attempts to hold together both his life and his sanity under the crumbling reality of divorce and destitution.
Oh, and Robert DeNiro's corpse in the boot of his car!
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