\'Martin Amis at his best...
Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zizhen; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed \'intrusion\' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King.\'As funny as Dead Babies, as blackly portentous as London Fields and as satirically on-the-nail as Money\' Mail on Sunday.
He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages.
We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the \'yellow\' journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse.
Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father.
Extravagantly funny’ GuardianWhen \'dream husband\' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change.
Wonderful... \'Martin Amis at his best..
