Waddington, James BAD TO THE BONE ISBN 13: 9781873982686

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Bad to the Bone is a surreal comedy firmly rooted in the technicalities of one of the world's most commercialised sports: cycling.
Akil Saenz is beautiful, cinnamon gold, delicately muscled, and the greatest cyclist the world has ever seen. He is about to realise this greatness in a sixth and unprecedented win of the Tour de France when Fleischman, the doctor of a rival team, appropriates his certain victory by mysterious means. Saenz is beaten year after year by inferior riders whose inordinate physical strength is accompanied by terrible mental deterioration terminating in murders, each with its unique grotesque aesthetic. Eventually, on top of Mont Ventoux, the choice is put to Saenz. Will he submit totally to Fleischman in return for brief, climactic glory?

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James Waddington is a playwright living in the North of England. He divides his time between writing and cycling. Bad to the Bone is his only novel.
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British playwright Waddingtons manic, stylishly bizarre first novel glories in a Faustian pact between a Spanish professional cyclist and an evil sports doctor. Whos been murdering Europe's best professional cyclists? After the disappearance of the brain-dead body of a biker who seems then to have died accidently and the discovery of the bloodless, brainless pieces of a fellow cyclist in a remote mountain village, cynically philosophical police detective Gabriela Gomelez questions Akil S enz, a handsome Spaniard who ranks among the top riders in the world. Blessed with superlatively good looks, a sexually magnetic wife, Perlita de Zubia, and enough money to live in luxury for the rest of his life, S enz can offer no clues or even an explanation other than the grudging admission that any cyclist will do just about anything to become the best. Fellow biker Patrul Azafr n, who is having a passionate affair with Perlita (of which everyone but her husband is aware), suspects that S enz is not above temptation after seeing him in the company of the bearded, impeccably tailored sports doctor and team manager Mikkel Fleischman, whose suspiciously steaming briefcases just might contain an illicit substance that transforms a merely gifted cyclist into an unbeatable speed machine. The downside is that the substance also seems to drive its users insane. When another speed-machine cyclist is found hanging from a cliff, portions of his skull and body expertly flayed, Azafr n suspects that the cases may be linked because all the corpses have had their brains removed. When a suddenly paranoid S enz joins Fleischman's team and begins winning with diabolical ease, he also suspectsand fearsthat his best friend is lost. While participating in a series of vividly depicted races, Azafr n hopes to send Fleischman back to hell before he destroys S enz completely. Feverishly hyperbolic thrill ride that, despite tiresome histrionics and postmodern posturing, brilliantly exposes the darkness of soul lurking in the most gifted of champions. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • PublisherDedalus Limited
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1873982682
  • ISBN 13 9781873982686
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages194
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