The ultimate tale of sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll....
Rob Price is a music journalist. He's a hard-drinking hack who's
frustrated, skint and cynical, and he's drowning in a pile of CDs to
review that he simply doesn't have the time to listen to. He's not only
got money issues, but girlfriend issues, flatmate issues, personal
hygiene issues and a rampant libido he's incapable of keeping in check
after a few pints.
Hack follows Rob round endless seedy dive
venues as he finds himself at odds with the people he meets in an
industry teeming with hangers on, wannabes, maybes and no-hopers, as he
sneers, snorts, tokes and spews his way through a succession of sordid
encounters and dangerous liaisons in his quest for that 'big' story.
A
graphic and darkly comic tale of misanthropy, music and misadventure, Hack makes Lester Bangs seem positively straight edge in comparison to
Price. This book is to music journalism what John Niven's Kill Your
Friends is to A&R – only grimier, slimier and grittier. While some
writers go for the jugular, James Wells just goes straight for the jugs.
Hack is James Well's debut novel and is available as an ebook in a range of formats from
Smashwords priced $2.99 and as a Kindle edition from all of the global Amazon sites.
Read an interview with the author by Christopher Nosnibor
here.