It makes a protagonist of he who is literature’s all-time ultimate villain and simultaneously the personification of all villainy. With this character at the book’s heart, the author explores, amongst many other themes, some of humanity’s darkest and most dreadful moral transgressions. Duncan manages this with unflinching clarity, intelligently devised detail and a craftsman’s weave of one-liners, observational humour, hilarious characters and broadly applied satire. To me, while first reading it, then returning immediately to the first page for another go, it was clear that I may never enjoy a novel so much again. That has stuck true for over ten years now
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