QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING

COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

ONE FINE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

BOILING A FROG

A BIG BOY DID IT AND RAN AWAY

THE SACRED ART OF STEALING

ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEBODY LOSES AN EYE

A TALE ETCHED IN BLOOD AND HARD BLACK PENCIL

ATTACK OF THE UNSINKABLE RUBBER DUCKS

BE MY ENEMY

F**k this for a game of soldiers...

For investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, these are worrying times: it's been almost three years since anyone tried to kill him and he fears he's losing his touch. But then comes an assignment in the Scottish countryside that will more than make up for lost time ...

Ultimate Motivational Leisure offer the latest in corporate outwards bounds courses, the sort of team building exercises that Jack thinks are decidedly for bankers. The organisers, however, are keen to overturn his prejudices, while Jack is happy to have them reinforced. If nothing else, he gets a free weekend of shooting at PR people with a paintball gun.Except the longer the weekend goes on, the weirder things start to get. First someone steals the SIM cards from everybody's mobile phones. Then, when the group accidentally stray onto army land, the army start firing back - and not with cans of Dulux. Suddenly no one can tell what's real and what isn't, whether this is part of the game, or if everybody is fighting for their lives ...

Ferociously unpredictable. Bitingly funny. Action packed to perfection. Be My Enemy finds Christopher Brookmyre on top form, and ensuring you'll never look at a snooker table in the same way again.

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What the papers thought of BE MY ENEMY:

Good: The Guardian, Daily Express, The Mirror, Sunday Herald (some mistake surely?), Daily Record, Time Out, The List, Arena, Zoo, Heat, Jack, Ink, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Business Post

Awright: What's On London

Shite: The Herald

This year's "Frustrated Male on a Scottish Broadsheet Arts Desk Spits the Dummy" display: David Belcher, The Herald. Not content with showering predictable contempt upon the author, Belcher flipped the bird to the readers also by including no less than three crucial plot spoilers in his review.

It's all about opinions:

"Is Be My Enemy meant to be a satire? Not when its targets are small and predictable." David Belcher, The Herald

"Be My Enemy continues to explore the shadow of Al Qaida and also reflects the last Gulf war and even Hutton in the significance of the intelligence services to events." Mark Lawson, The Guardian

"Is Be My Enemy an action thriller? Not when all the action is confined to the book's closing sixth segment." David Belcher, The Herald

"Just when you are wondering if the climb to the peak of the set-up will ever end, you plunge down an unstoppable 200-page flume ride that leaves you breathless with excitement." Simon Edge, Daily Express

Your tenner is in the post: "It's the kind of thing Agatha Christie might have written if she'd been off her tits on manky crack" Conrad Williams, Time Out

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