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About the Author
CHAZ BRENCHLEY has been making a living as a writer since he was eighteen. He is the author of nine thrillers, most recently "Shelter" and two fantasy series, "The Books of Outremer" and "Selling Water by the River". As Daniel Fox he has published a Chinese-based fantasy series, beginning with "Dragon in Chains", as Ben Macallan, an urban fantasy, "Desdaemona". A British Fantasy Award winner, he has also published books for children and more than 500 short stories in various genres. His time as crimewriter-in-residence on a sculpture project in Sunderland resulted in the collection "Blood Waters".
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An all-day telethon at the Meldon Centre, Europe's biggest mall, attracts huge crowds--and a lone gunman. Brenchley ( The Garden ) examines this catastrophic combination through the eyes of a wide range of Northern England's population: a teen couple, a TV cameraman, the Meldon Centre magnate himself, his wife, her lover, a band called Hot Ginger, a publicity flack in love with a radio shock jock, and the like. As these characters helplessly watch the well-planned carnival turn into the scene of random carnage, Brenchley often interpolates unexpectedly human and dramatic incidents. But too much depends on the gunman, whose sketchy motivations (bad parents, sexual repulsion/repression) are psychological cliches, and whenever the novel returns to this central character, the narrative stalls. While Brenchley shows courage in taking on headline horrors that supposedly resist fictional treatment, his slapdash portrayal of the ``lone nut'' character puts a decoy where a hot-blooded murderer should be.
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- PublisherCoronet Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0340574488
- ISBN 13 9780340574485
- BindingPaperback
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