Suitable only for persons of strong constitution.
Contains:
Drug use
Perversion
Murder
Corruption
Sexism
Racism
Law Enforcement
And a tapeworm
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Published: 30/09/2010
ISBN: 9781407018485
Length: 416 Pages
RRP: £9.99
A peculiar kind of brilliance
A snarling epic of a book...ugly, devastatingly funny, unremittingly nasty and pulls no punches... Don't dare miss it
Welsh firing on all cylinders... The best thing he has done since Trainspotting
It is surely a remarkable cultural moment when a reviewer is offered cash in a bar for an advance copy of a literary novel... Filth is a masterpiece...squarely in the classic line of classic scottish writing
Things are going well for Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson. Promotion is in the offing, he's got all the booze and drugs he needs, and his various plots aimed at friends and colleagues seem to be working out. Robertson, compulsive and repulsive by turns, has only two problems. One is a case of racially-motivated murder on his patch. The other is that there's a nasty tapeworm in his gut and it seems intent on having its say... A brutally sustained achievement