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Scars Beneath The Skin - a novel by A.J. Duggan, published by Flambard Press. OUT NOW
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The traumatised survivor of a terrorist bomb finds love at the point of suicide. But is it enough to save him?
Karl Dresner - a shadow of a man only barely connected with the world of the living. Lucia Cavallieri - impulsive, implacable, life-affirming. These are the characters at the heart of 'Scars Beneath The Skin.'
A journey into darkness.
A precarious route back to salvation.
Love at the point of suicide in a world that's falling apart.
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There is only so much loneliness a human being can bear.
In his Munich apartment, Karl Dresner waits. His hands are shaking. Salt from beads of sweat sting his eyes. A gun rests on the left hand side of the table, two bottles on the right: one of whisky, one of barbiturates. A coin glints. The telephone across the room rings; once, twice, three times and then the answer machine cuts in.
'Leave a message and I'll get back to you. Maybe,' says a version of Dresner’s voice.
The tape spindles begin to rotate. The mechanism hums. Dresner remains seated, turning the coin between his fingers: heads, tails, heads, tails ....
It begins in London. Karl Dresner shouldn't even be there. He should be on a plane to the Maldives with a girlfriend who wants more than he can give. But work comes first and he pays the price for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A bomb explodes. Cut down in a blizzard of glass shards, Karl drags himself away from the carnage - alive, but only just… ‘Scars Beneath The Skin’ is a novel about a traumatized survivor, the woman who loves him, and their precarious route to salvation.
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Some background
Two instances of being in the wrong place at the wrong time helped create this story: one courtesy of the IRA detonating a 3000lb truck bomb outside the Manchester Arndale Centre, the other when anti-Bush protesters rioted in Berlin. 'Scars Beneath The Skin' is my second completed novel. Next one will be a thriller set in Amsterdam, about a low-level drug dealer unwittingly drawn into a nuclear smuggling conspiracy.
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Fans of the novelists Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler are more than welcome, as are fans of the American artist Edward Hopper. Anyone who might be interested in buying 'Scars Beneath The Skin' when it gets to the bookshops in May/June 2009. The only ones not welcome are spammers.
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