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Tony is a handsome young boxer forced into a life of
crime after suffering a vicious blow in the ring.
Seduced by the glitz and glamour of London and mentored
by charismatic gang lord Don March he rises rapidly up the crime ladder until
he spies an opportunity to start a semi-legit Natural Highs business.
Bankrolled by an eccentric British dandy and accompanied
by a cast of starry misfits including a 3ft tall blue-haired money man, an
Etonian drug mule, two dominatrix debt collectors, a dodgy lawyer and a host of
demi-celebs, Tony carves out a roll for himself in a city where money creates
its’ own morality.
All seems to be going well until in the shadows, a
Bollywood mobster threatens to derail their plans.
Chaos ensues, of course it does – wonderful, beautiful,
visceral chaos.
The deft wit of Hammett meets the vivid poetics of Chandler:
Crack Apple and Pop is slick smart and razor sharp. A gritty and sometimes
metafictive slice of London noir.
A city of artful dodgers, yardie gangsters, kinky
aristos, cocaine dusted starlets and social thrill seekers where
everyone’s hustling and everyone’s getting high.
Whether it’s law, finance, the music biz, or the
boxing ring: money is king. And only the ones prepared to risk everything
will survive...
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Crack Apple & Pop was published by Fahrenheit 13, an imprint of Fahrenheit Press, on 12th June 2018.
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Saira Viola is an acclaimed novelist, poet, and song lyricist.
From her early poetic experimentation with language, image and sound (a
technique she has dubbed sonic scatterscript) to her novelistic ventures
into the dark, absurd world of contemporary crime fiction, Viola’s work pulses with
iconoclastic brio that mischievously blasts the golden calves of our times. Literary
Heavyweight Benjamin Zephaniah, has praised her ‘twisted beautiful
imagination,’ and polymathic genius, Heathcote Williams (RIP) her ‘hypnotic
explosive', writing style. Twice Nominated for Best of The Net 2017 Pushcart
Prize Nominee 2017 Rascal Magazine. Viola’s poetry collection Flowers of War debuted
at the New York Poetry Festival and published by UB Press. Novels Jukebox (Fahrenheit
Press) Crack Apple and Pop (Fahrenheit Press) Viola is a regular contributor to
counterculture magazines Gonzo Today and International Times.
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