The Accident on the A35

The Accident on the A35From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted His Bloody Project comes this classic noir novel for lovers of psychological thrillers. The methodical but troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski visits the wife of a lawyer killed in a road accident, the accident on the A35. The case is unremarkable, the visit routine.

and that features on-screen appearances by fellow artists of Burroughs’s including Allen Ginsberg

Over ten years after When Giants Walked the Earth

Blending reality and symbolism

Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later

in early 1956

He ultimately argues that

Subjective and idiosyncratic

and he unearths a stark truth - the era of populism is an epiphenomenon - a symptom of the age of nationalism coming to an end

Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War

when he was

hidden gold and a princess in distress

But more than anything else