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No Good Deed

No Good Deed

by John Niven
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/07/2017

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***Now available for preorder- KILL 'EM ALL, the stunning sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS***What do you do when the homeless man on the street you?ve just given money to thanks you by name and turns out to be one of your 'closest? friends, one you haven?t seen for over twenty years? Take him for a hot meal and see him on his way? Give him a lot more money than you usually would? Or take him in and try to get him back on his feet? For Alan, there?s no question - only natural that he?d want to see his old mate Craig off the streets, even if only for a few nights, and into some clean clothes. But what if the successful life you?ve made for yourself - good job, happy marriage, lovely kids, grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom, thank you very much) - is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too? Even if it means taking it from you? Gradually, inevitably, mayhem ensues as Craig turns Alan?s orderly household upside down, threatening to wreck Alan?s life for good. Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, No Good Deed is a funny and painful examination of friendship; of the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades; and of men getting older as they fail and succeed.
ISBN:
9780434023295
9780434023295
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-07-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
216x135x22mm
Weight:
0.32kg
John Niven

John Niven was born in Scotland around the time that Music from Big Pink was recorded.

After playing guitar in 1980s indie hopefuls the Wishing Stones, he read English Literature at Glasgow University and went on to work as an A&R man in the UK music industry before leaving to write full time.

He is the author of eight novels, including Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming and Straight White Male.

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