Tom has prematurely reached his midlife crisis.Instead of a career change, a hobby or an affair; he decides to murder one of his best friends.
Tom has reached a cross road in his life. He needs a challenge. Unlike some, he doesn't consider travel or a career change. He decides to murder one of his best friends.
The story takes place on New Year's Eve in 1999 and revolves around events on a very dramatic and at times humorous evening in middle England. Weighing up the developments of the night Tom has the agony of choice over who to kill. The reader is taken on a journey of understanding the lows and even lowers of Tom's group of friends and gains a real understanding and empathy of why all of them are deserving of death.
Once a piece of meat has been chosen Tom formulates the perfect crime using ruthless cunning and amazing attention to detail. You are taken on a journey from Europe to South East Asia and the story flickers from past to the present.
The book is close to the bone as you are taken on a journey of not just a murders mind but also an understanding of British society at its worst and with all great crime novels there is a dark twist at the end