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Scorn Paul Hoffman

Scorn By Paul Hoffman

Scorn by Paul Hoffman


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Summary

Someone is eating priests, Inspector Scrope, and it's got to stop.

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Scorn by Paul Hoffman

After an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider goes horribly wrong, depressed scientist Aaron Gall wakes up to discover his mind and body have undergone an astonishing transformation. Now bursting with the joys of life, he is inspired to undertake a radical new therapy: to talk to the priests who brutalised him and his school friends, point out the intellectual dishonesty and inhumanity of their religious beliefs - and then eat them.

Aaron enjoys the process so much (as well as taunting the police and MI5) he decides to extend his murderous conversations to include the Archbishop of Westminster, recently converted Catholic Tony Blair, the Queen of England - and, finally, the Pope himself.

But a Catholic Church that has given the world the Crusades, the Inquisition, and Papal Infallibility hasn't survived for two thousand years without a reason.

Aaron is in for the greatest shock in the history of mankind.

Scorn Reviews

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

The only writer, English or American, with the guts to take on the modern world in all its terrifying complexity.

The Week

This is fiction on a grand and ambitious scale... inspires sensations of terror, nausea, bemusement and exhilaration.

Daily Telegraph

His insights into some of the female characters are among the novel's most valuable details. And the chapter about the childhood of Fraud Secretariat deputy director Michael McCarthy, spent watching his father jump out of aircraft (Hoffman's father was a sports parachutist), is a masterpiece.

The Independent

...the most horrible book I ever read and the only one I ever physically destroyed so that nobody else would have the displeasure of reading it.

Amazon review

The Golden Age of Censorship

Hoffman's witty style and command of satire, coupled with the unique setting, makes this a hugely original and enjoyable novel.

Time Out

Moves with the pace of the best thrillers.

Independent on Sunday

The Left Hand of God Trilogy

Writers like Hoffman are too rare. This wonderful book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself.

Conn Iggulden

Brooding and magnificent... Hoffman has created a terrifying world and filled it with strange and complex characters.

Eoin Colfer

Brilliant. Mervyn Peake takes on Dickens in a head to head clash with a manga comic that takes no prisoners. Strange, funny, violent and intriguing.

Charlie Higson

A dark novel, haunting and exciting. If you do not enjoy this book something has died in your soul.

Harry Sidebottom

A cult classic...

Daily Express

Tremendous momentum.

Daily Telegraph

About Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman is the son of Irish immigrants and was born in a house lacking running water or electricity. He spent six years detained without trial in a Catholic boarding school. His previous novels include The Wisdom of Crocodiles, in which he predicted the collapse of the financial system, The Golden Age of Censorship, a black comedy based on his experience as a film censor about the havoc caused by watching too much sex and violence, and the bestselling The Left Hand of God trilogy.

Additional information

NPB9781911195351
9781911195351
1911195352
Scorn by Paul Hoffman
New
Hardback
Whitefox Publishing Ltd
2017-07-09
544
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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