I Love My Smith and Wesson (28 page)

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City Life

“Grotesque, original, and murderously funny, it conforms to no existing crime template.… Bowker tells his bloody tale with wit, invention, and raw energy that boils off the page. It is the kind of go that traditionally invigorates the pulp, but Bowker distills it here into a rare vintage that does wonders for his chosen genre.”

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Literary Review

“A novel that is wickedly funny. In fact, I'm putting [
The Death You Deserve
] aside for a few weeks and then plan to read it again before passing it around to some of my most deserving friends.”

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Punch

“David Bowker's writing is poignant, moving, and funny, bristling with a refreshing new breed of male integrity.”

—Martin Clunes

I LOVE MY SMITH & WESSON
. Copyright © 2004 by David Bowker. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reprduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bowker, David.

    I love my Smith & Wesson / David Bowker.—1st ed.

    p. cm.

    ISBN 0-312-32825-7

    EAN 978-0312-32825-2

    1. Manchester (England)—Fiction.   2.  Organized crime—Fiction.   3.  Male friendship—Fiction.   4.  Assassins—Fiction.   5.  Authors—Fiction.   I.  Title: I love my Smith and Wesson.   II.  Title.

PR6052.O879I13 2004

823'.92—dc22

2004040235

First Edition: August 2004

eISBN 9781466832008

First eBook edition: October 2012