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Synopsis
Matt used to be a musician. No money in it. Now he's running a nice little Internet scam, and working as a personal therapy consultant (i.e. pimp) for his girlfriend, Sasha. Sasha's a dominatrix. And a certified New Age Goddess, the sacred Whore, an all the way flake case. Right now she's torturing Rob Powers in the dungeon. Yeah, that Rob Powers, the New York rock'n'roll legend. Matt doesn't care. All that worries Matt right now is the dead drug dealer on the floor. The Dark Magus and The Sacred Whore is a bible black comedy set in the outer fringes of the New Age, a neo-noir tale of perversion and madness, and a wildly off-beat love story. And for once it's true, it really is like nothing you've ever read before.
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Write what you know, they always say...Mark Ramsden is a composer and sax-player, who edits Fetish Times and is, according to his author notes, famous for his body piercings. His first novel is a sardonically amiable romp set in the sub-cultural interface between drugs, sado-masochism, occultism and rock and roll. Performance artist and dominatrix Sasha, and her musician lover Matt, find their coke dealer mutilated and dead. They are the sort of people who really can't go to the police, and whose perpetual amoral search for a profit angle means that there will always be an alternative if they can think of it. The fact that their loving banter deals in ritual magic, bondage and class A drugs does not make Matt and Sasha any less the heirs of Nick and Nora Charles in Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man.
This is a remarkable debut and sparklingly funny, even if most of the jokes are the blasphemies of the true believer. It is also a surprisingly neat and inventive thriller; it is not perhaps surprising that Ramsden should welcome the discipline of playing by a new set of rules. --Roz Kaveney
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?Lashings of black magic, kinky sex and bad jokes in this agreeably distasteful little book? Sunday Times ?A baroque, uproarious parody of every genre you could think of... you?ll laugh along until your piercings ache? Time Out
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1852425989
- ISBN 13 9781852425982
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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