Empire state - Hardcover

Bateman, Colin

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437 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002254174 ISBN 13: 9780002254175

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

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Wild American adventure of two Irish exiles, culminating in the accidental kidnapping of the US President on top of the Empire State Building.Its bad enough having a name like Nathan Jones unless youre a Supremes fan, which Nathan isnt but when his girlfriend leaves him (for a drag queen) and he gets mugged, then handcuffed to a bed and cut up in a misunderstanding with an S&M hooker, it looks as if things cant get any worse for this exile in the Big Apple. But they can! Will Nathan get his girl back Will the President survive imprisonment by a psychotic white supremist in (rapidly melting) black-face Will veteran lift-operator Sam McClusky get his job back Find out in Empire State.The stage is set for a vintage Bateman adventure, which takes the world of politics international, racial and sexual and holds it hostage atop the most famous building on Earth.

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'Bateman on epic form in gloriously over-the-top saga' - Daily Telegraph

'A hugely enjoyable novel ... blessed with a beautiful sense of irony ... it's like Carl Hiaasen, Tom Wolfe, and Roddy Doyle at their best' - The Herald

About the Author:

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962. For many years he was deputy editor of the County Down Spectator. He received a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column, and a Journalist's Fellowship to Oxford University. His first novel, Divorcing Jack, won the Betty Trask Prize in 1994.

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