Full time whiskey enthusiast Doug Morgan is on a downward spiral. Over the past two years the Irish man has played witness to the slow and steady decay of his life and he’s finally called time. Haunted by an unacknowledged pain Doug swaps the white collar nine to five of Belfast for one last charge into oblivion in the City of Angels. A scotch-soaked stranger in a strange land Doug befriends a series of like minded and self destructive vagabonds who, like him, are aiming for chaos. In a city that sees thousands of people per year come to be discovered why has one man come to get lost?
Belfast native David Louden is the author of the roman á clef novels LOST ANGELES & BONE IDOL [bohn ahyd-l]. His major influences have been cited as Charles Bukowski, John Fante, William S. Burroughs and Brendan Behan. He is currently working on a noir project for television, scheduled 2015.
Well, that's something I would not catch myself reading... And I can tell why this book took me soooo loooong to read. I won this book from a giveaway a whole ago, and I have been avoiding it because the blurb scared me. But I finally found the courage yesterday to open it and begin reading it. And wow, was I captivated. From the 2nd chapter, the suspense was keeping me at the edge of my seat, and I just needed to keep on reading. So I did, and I liked it :) I'm glad I was able to read something out of my catagory, to "broaden up my horizons". :)
Read it if you want, it's just really hard to find...
Got about half way through and couldn't take it any longer. Might give this another try at a later date. If I read any more of this right now... I might rip this book in half. And it surprises me that I dislike this drunken debauchery.