Welcome To Coolsville
By (Author) Jason Mordaunt
Vintage Publishing
Vintage
15th July 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Humorous fiction
823.92
Paperback
368
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
255g
Dr Kiely Flanagan has to rustle up eighty grand - out of nowhere and in a hurry. She knows of one skeleton which might attract considerable cash were she to drag it out for an airing. For almost a year J. P. Gillespie, overseer of the pan-global conglomerate, WentWest, has been the butt of a long-running practical joke, perpetrated by the cyber-terror organisation Mantra. Just this morning he finds out that someone abducted three of his drug-trial subjects and killed them all in a car accident. To top it all his boss has flown into town and wants a word. Marshall McLemon would have a dream job in the WentWest archive if J. P. Gillespie would part with the funds needed to develop the ideas he and Papa Charlie McCormack have been pushing. Encouragingly, the newly arrived chairman and CEO of WentWest Europe is claiming to be his distant cousin. Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the most attractive woman Papa Charlie has encountered in his life. Regrettably, she's half his age and seems only interested in the road accident he witnessed the night before.
A remarkable debut that is fizzing with ideas...Mordaunt's arrival is something to celebrate * Irish Independent *
This book is wild and wonderful, and unlike any other Irish book I've read -- Roddy Doyle
A high-wire piece of plotting and a whole lot of fun * Arena *
Airborne from the very first page... Handles his oddball characters with great comic aplomb * Image *
Jason Mordaunt was born in Dublin, where he lives and works.