Overview

Meet Kirk Decker, abusive 1980s B-movie actor. He�s self-destructing from drink and drugs, and some people want him dead. While shooting an action film in the Philippines, he has unearthly visions and weird encounters. Meet Dayang, the dutiful queen of a matriarchal tribe in 16th-century Luzon. Why are her people suffering from mysterious diseases? How can they call on the spirit world to save them? And what connects them through time, space and magic to Kirk and other violent white men in need of redemption?

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If you like East and West colliding, then there's no better read than Sykes's surreal, sprawling right cross of a novel. With disparate misfits, including a depraved movie star and a firebrand mystic spiralling together in an intriguing car crash story, bet you'll never guess how they're interconnected together like a quantum entanglement. Nobody is safe but everyone might just be saved. Or as the eccentric Colonel Fishwit might quip about any Gordian knot needing a good sword: ""It's like a party where everyone's invited. Everyone except you mother***ers."" Karl R. De Mesa

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Tom Sykes is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, UK and, as a journalist who has travelled extensively in Africa and Asia over the last 10 years, he has written for the London Telegraph, New Statesman, The London Magazine, Private Eye, The Scotsman, New Internationalist, Southeast Asia Globe, The Journalist, The Philippines Free Press and a dozen other titles.

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