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King of the Ants

By: Charles Higson
Narrated by: Charles Higson
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It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the man, he seems a nonentity and you quite fancy his wife. And there's no chance of being caught.

Sean is a drifter, working as a building labourer and waiting for something to happen. When Sean is offered easy money to tail someone and even more easy money to dispose of him, it's all more tempting than you might think. Except when you realise that you've been led up the garden path the whole way....

King of the Ants is dark, disturbing and violently comic. In the tradition of both Joe Orton and Iain Banks, Charlie Higson pinpoints the casual vagaries of evil and its attendant powers. Unnerving, horribly accurate and wickedly enjoyable, it remains Higson's finest book.

©2021 Charlie Higson (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK
Action & Adventure Literature & Fiction

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Dark and disturbing. Brilliantly read. Reminds me a bit of Dead Man's Shoes. Try The Enemy by Charlie Higson

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The characters are amazing, complicated and you hate them and like them at the same time. the plot is twisting sometimes grotesque, but what a ride it was! perfect

sophisticated funny and scary

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