A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.
A quirky thriller and semi-humorous shaggy dog tale from an author best known for his comic TV scripts, this proves wonderful entertainment. Jacky, a somewhat failure of a person and a pedantic translator, meets a beautiful girl in a bar, but messes things up badly once she comes to his flat. No surprise, then.
When he later becomes a suspect in her murder, although no body is actually discovered, he draws a tenuous connection with a mysterious book she owned and some of the more eccentric writers he has interfaced with on in his day job and is launched on a madcap adventure to Paris to both prove his innocence and elucidate the book in an enigmatic language unknown to man, wikth a bow to Jorge Luis Borges, and the woman's notebook of rock and roll clippings (yes, it does make sense eventually!).
Add to the crazy mix an old school type publisher, relentless cops on his trail, a strange museum, guns, perilous roof-top escapes and all sorts of mishaps and you have a wild trip, where the jokes linger and hapless narrator is a bewildered figure of fun and fascination.
Jacky is a translator. He is a bit of an eccentric. And he can't quite understand why the enigmatic and beautiful girl at the bar wants to talk to him.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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Jacky is a translator. He is a bit of an eccentric.
The Mule features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, General Fiction
Hardback. Not Available.
The Mule was written by David Quantick and published by Unbound an imprint of Cornerstone
The Mule has 288 pages
