Yeah it sounds pretty good from the reviews!
I've just read my first Aylett book, I say that because I know I will now have to read other. I stumbled across him by accident and got The Inflatable Volunteer in a swap. I really liked it and I think you will too. I would describe it as surrealist literature and although some parts sound more like two old men in a pub. When I was reading it I felt like a lot of it was going totally over my head, but that didn't stop it really making me laugh. Here is an extract:
Lazy and senior, the Mayor was a gabbing, hollow b*****d whose function was to shorten the distance between start and finish of endurance, and inevitably there were murders. Eleven, if you believe the papers. And smashing of windows if you believe me - I was there when a young clerk's nerve snapped and he began shaking like a sign in a storm, bagging a vision of the Mayor with bugging eyes, and ran at him with his hands outstretched to receive the Mayor's throat for the purposes of strangulation and later, punching. The Mayor, by now used to this and prepared, opened a small drawer, removed a gun and shot wide, hitting a small chrome effigy of a musichall tart. The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could chose a death I'd make it something like that, except I'd add a good woman and some lard.
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Currently reading ~ The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss & Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
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