Muscle

Author: Trotter, Alan

Fiction & related items

Published on 1 September 2020 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
129 x 197 x 26 | 232g

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and . They're the kind of men capable of extracting apologies and reparations, of teaching you a chilling lesson. They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions.

Until one night over the poker table, they encounter a pulp writer with wild ideas and an unscrupulous private detective, leading them into what is either a classic mystery, a senseless maze of corpses, or an inextricable fever dream . . .

Drunk on cinematic and literary influence, Muscle is a slice of noir fiction in collapse, a ceaselessly imaginative story of violence, boredom and madness.