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Pencil Neck
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781514340516
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 5 2015
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
He ran and ran down a road to damnation!
With each mile marker, handsome, muscle-bound drifter Gray Boakes escapes further from the pathetic Pencil Neck he once was. Thrown off the train in a deadbeat town, it doesn't take long for him to be surrounded by willing women.
But new squeeze Barbara wants to tame him and trap him in a world of loveless sex and cheap booze, just as his devoted parents wanted to trap him in the 9-to-5 world of money and power.
Now his time on the road is quickly reaching its inevitable dead end, and an increasingly desperate Gray commits one final act of rebellion - a perversion from which there might be no salvation.
Pencil Neck is a work of noir fiction in the classic paperback mould, with lean, terse prose and a black and cynical heart. Part pulp fiction thriller and part dark psychological character study, anti-hero Gray Boakes' doom-laden descent into hell is unflinching, twisted and gloriously, unapologetically amoral.
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