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About the Book

1987. Carol is a small-time cocaine dealer in London. One of her customers is Phil, a financial analyst in the City who fantasises about a cocaine futures market while on a coke binge. When the cocaine futures market becomes a reality, Carol has an opportunity to go for the big deal that could get her out of the business for good. Meanwhile, a market crash creates havoc, and a hurricane sweeps across London, ripping down the communication systems of the stock market itself. Carol must make her choice as three very different worlds are about to collide.

About the Author :
John Barker is a writer and book indexer. He is the author of "Bending the Bars," a memoir of the time he spent in prison as a result of a conviction for conspiring to cause explosions. He served an additional five-year sentence in the early 1990s for conspiring to import cannabis.

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"A fast-paced, hard-boiled novel that pulls you back, effortlessly, into morally corrupt Thatcherite London. Barker [has] crisp, laconic, prose, [an] eye-for-detail storytelling, [a] command of the art of narrative, and [an] ear for fluid and convincing dialogue." --Stuart Christie, author, "Granny Made Me an Anarchist" "If you want to get beyond the fairy tale version of the sordid underbelly of life, then you gotta check Futures out." --Stewart Home, author, "69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess" "In this fast-paced, streetwise take on eighties London, boundaries blur between the cocaine trade and newly deregulated financial markets. . . . Barker's portrait of a cynical, money-hungry culture skewers a moment in history that for good or ill (and mostly for ill) made Britain what it is today." --Hari Kunzru, author, "The Impressionist" and "Memory Place" "The prose grabs you by the throat and squeezes. The characters are by turns reckless, ambitious, vulnerable, and weak. The story is set in the past but couldn't be more relevant. Futures is funny, frightening, and very dark." --Ronan Bennett, author, " The Catastrophist"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781604869859
  • Publisher: PM Press
  • Publisher Imprint: PM Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1604869852
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 352


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