“Neil Gaiman meets Tarantino in this madcap, wildly
entertaining journey into Cape Town's supernatural underworld.”
Apocalypse Now Now
by Charlie Human is out next month from Century (£12.99):
“Baxter Zevcenko’s life is pretty sweet. As the 16-year-old
kingpin of the Spider, his smut-peddling schoolyard syndicate, he’s making a
name for himself as an up-and-coming entrepreneur. Profits are on the rise, the
other gangs are staying out of his business, and he’s going out with Esme, the
girl of his dreams.
But when Esme gets kidnapped, and all the clues point
towards strange forces at work, things start to get seriously weird. The only
man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter
that goes by the name of Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin.
Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape
Town’s supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save Esme. On a
journey that takes them through the realms of impossibility, they must face
every conceivable nightmare to get her back, including the odd brush with the
Apocalypse.”
Or as the tag line goes: “I love the smell of parallel
dimensions in the morning”.
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