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Sinker
Sinker catapults readers into the life of law dropout Baker Forley as he signs up for the world’s most controversial and deadly sport, professional drinking. If he plays it right, wins some games and gets out early enough, he might just escape with money, self-respect and at least some of his health.
Sponsored by a struggling singles bar back in Derry, Baker and his licentious American coach Ratface head to sun-baked Mallorca for the infamous Bullfight boozing battle. As protests rage over the rights and wrongs of the reviled sport, he takes his seat alongside some of its most colourful combatants.
But the heat plays havoc with the ginger Irishman’s game and a drunken glance at a mysterious Arabian beauty earns a decisive punch from her bodyguard. Her husband, a beer-swilling Saudi oil baron, invites Baker and Ratface to his extraordinary, Gaudi-designed home to make amends – and makes a cash offer they can’t refuse.
As illicit lust flares in the boiling heat, Baker soon learns the real reason he’s there – he’s about to be framed for murder. After days of industrial-level drinking - and dealing with Ratface’s random groping - can he break free?
Inspired by the power and complexity of addiction Sinker is a thrilling, yet irreverent yet often joyful take on a hopeless but changing male drinking culture.
'If Carlsberg did the Hunger Games...mad as a bag of spiders but brilliant' Colin Bateman
Sponsored by a struggling singles bar back in Derry, Baker and his licentious American coach Ratface head to sun-baked Mallorca for the infamous Bullfight boozing battle. As protests rage over the rights and wrongs of the reviled sport, he takes his seat alongside some of its most colourful combatants.
But the heat plays havoc with the ginger Irishman’s game and a drunken glance at a mysterious Arabian beauty earns a decisive punch from her bodyguard. Her husband, a beer-swilling Saudi oil baron, invites Baker and Ratface to his extraordinary, Gaudi-designed home to make amends – and makes a cash offer they can’t refuse.
As illicit lust flares in the boiling heat, Baker soon learns the real reason he’s there – he’s about to be framed for murder. After days of industrial-level drinking - and dealing with Ratface’s random groping - can he break free?
Inspired by the power and complexity of addiction Sinker is a thrilling, yet irreverent yet often joyful take on a hopeless but changing male drinking culture.
'If Carlsberg did the Hunger Games...mad as a bag of spiders but brilliant' Colin Bateman
217 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Jason Johnson
11 books2 followersI'VE always been interested in off-road stories, the sort of stuff that goes to odd and unexpected places.
So, when it comes to fiction, those are the kind of tales I like to write.
Sometimes I spend about four hours on a couple of hundred words, sometimes about four minutes.
I'm not even sure sometimes if I'm doing this right, but then I remember there are no rules.
That's probably the best thing about it.
My Belfast-set thriller DID SHE SEE YOU? is out now.
So, when it comes to fiction, those are the kind of tales I like to write.
Sometimes I spend about four hours on a couple of hundred words, sometimes about four minutes.
I'm not even sure sometimes if I'm doing this right, but then I remember there are no rules.
That's probably the best thing about it.
My Belfast-set thriller DID SHE SEE YOU? is out now.
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December 13, 2014
I picked this book up having read and enjoyed the Belfast author's previous two novels, albeit a while ago, but I came away very disappointed from this one.
Main character Baker Forley from Derry is a sinker, or professional drinker in the controversial drinking game, whose rules are explained at the start, and is in Mallorca for his first big contest, along with his manager Ratface. You can start to get the picture of the kind of book it is without me going any further.
I remember Johnson's previous efforts being shocking in the shock factor sense, but this was closer to being shocking in the not very good sense. I didn't buy the sinker game, and didn't feel that the characters were developed in any way for the reader beyond the caricature.
Stinker rather than Sinker-avoid!
Main character Baker Forley from Derry is a sinker, or professional drinker in the controversial drinking game, whose rules are explained at the start, and is in Mallorca for his first big contest, along with his manager Ratface. You can start to get the picture of the kind of book it is without me going any further.
I remember Johnson's previous efforts being shocking in the shock factor sense, but this was closer to being shocking in the not very good sense. I didn't buy the sinker game, and didn't feel that the characters were developed in any way for the reader beyond the caricature.
Stinker rather than Sinker-avoid!
August 8, 2016
Bizzaire but enjoyable
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