'… a lean, nasty, tripped-out shocker... a cracking book, a jolt to the senses like a line of flaming shots.' Irish Independent
"Sinker is a provocative, thought provoking novel with moments of laugh-out-loud humor and casual profundity throughout." atriptoireland.com
"The dialogue is razor-sharp and frequently laugh-out-loud funny."
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SINKER
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‘As mad as a bag of spiders, but brilliant.’ Colin Bateman.
"Johnson's humour, though blacker than a well settled Guinness, is laugh out loud funny." The Irish News
"Sinker is an absurdist romp through the carnival world of professional drinking... packed to bursting with expletives, bodily fluids, and noir-esque one-liners." Totally Dublin
BAKER Forley wants romance, respect, a career - yet his only talent is sinking whiskey.
Luckily the world's most reviled and controversial sport - professional drinking - badly needs new blood. But there’s a heavy price to pay.
‘This game is no indulgence,’ says Baker, ‘it's endurance.'
‘I like how this turned out. It’s an offbeat look at the wilful insanity of our drinking culture. Definitely bonkers in parts where it was meant to be surreal, but overall I think it caught the spirit of what I wanted it to be.’
SINKER is here.
