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Dirty Tricks

by Michael Dibdin

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My first Dibdin but I will search out his others. Smashing characterisation and very funny. Simple desires, well raucous sex, actually, in leafy Oxford, leading to despicable murder. ( )
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Comedy is the public version of a private darkness. The funnier it is, the more one must speculate on how much terror lies hidden. - Paul Theroux, My Secret History.
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For Syb, sine qua non
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A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.

When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn’t care. He has been abroad for twenty years, and since his return to merry old England he’s been startlingly uninhibited by morals or a conscience. Which is not only why he eventually gets involved with blackmail, a kidnapping, and two murders, but also how, with hilariously syllogistic logic, he’s able to justify his role in all of it.

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