ISBN: 978-0954138714 First Edition February 1999
ISBN: 978-0954138790 New Edition November 2008
"Gleefully macabre...hugely enjoyable black burlesque."The Scotsman
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next.
And yet there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomson’s uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer…
