Cannon Fodder

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A college reunion that ends in a bloodbath... A superhero too depressed to save the city... A man so deep in debt he is prepared to strike a terrible deal... A job that no one dares take... A doomed expedition... And a death-row romance... In Cannon Fodder, the creator of The Suicide Kit takes us to a place where life isn't just cheap, they're giving it away.

Imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected adapted for the screen by Tarantino and you're pretty much there
Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday

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Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/08/2006
ISBN: 9780099478232
Length: 208 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 150g
Price: £7.99

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Imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected adapted for the screen by Tarantino and you're pretty much there

Genuinely excellent

Sussex writer Hayles has a dark, skewed outlook on the world and combined with a fiendish sense of humour, it makes these stories well worth the time

Hayles nails wildly different voices with a few short strokes, then washes it all down with a flagon of treacly black humour

Hunter S Thompson would have loved these tales. Beautifully weird and told in deceptively simple prose

Hayles offers a second dose of black humour and testosterone in equal measure...hilarious

Roald Dahl on Ritalin

Hayles turns a wry, detached eye on the superficially reasonable ambitions of those driven insane by modern life...Hayles has a nicely twisted mind

Finely offbeat...original, dark, sick, nasty...and often hilarious

Damned funny. Sharp, punchy, writing, well executed ideas and lashings of irony make for a gripping read

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