Dead Air

· Hachette UK
3.8
9 reviews
eBook
448
Pages
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'A deeply satirical and thought-provoking thriller' Sunday Express

A couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London's East End; cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment slated for the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the roof towards the deserted car park a hundred feet below. Other guests join in and soon half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted tarmac... just as mobiles start to ring, and the apartment's remaining TV is turned on, because apparently a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center...


Praise for Iain Banks:

'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times

'His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers' Ken MacLeod, Guardian

'His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent' Neil Gaiman

'An exceptional wordsmith' Scotsman

Ratings and reviews

3.8
9 reviews
A Google user
10 December 2011
Entertaining at times, at other times barely readable and I found the ending to be quite terrible. There didn't really seem to be any point to the story and I'm uncertain why the events of 9/11 were included as they were only briefly mentioned at the start of the novel and then forgotten about. Maybe it was to highlight how vain and self-centered the characters really are that such a momentous event hardly rates in their lives. The main character is not very likeable, sometimes funny, but mostly he is an annoying selfish idiot. I'm usually a fan of Iain Banks, but this novel is only passable.
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Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.

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