Dead Air

By Iain Banks

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Ken Nott is an outspoken left-wing London radio presenter who enjoys provoking the powerful. The novel opens at a rowdy wedding party in an East End loft on September 11, 2001. Ken's on-air remarks bring him enemies, and his secret affair with Celia, the wife of a dangerous gangster, puts him in deeper trouble. As threats close in, he looks for an escape, in a thriller laced with comedy about politics and the media.

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