Title: HeadHunters
HEADHUNTERS is the story of five friends. Carter USM is a live wire who lives on the edge; Mango can’t stop thinking; Harry is a beer-lover and dreamer; Balti his drinking partner, out of work and hoping for a fresh start; while Will is the quiet romantic, a voice of reason as the lives of the others become increasingly chaotic.
HEADHUNTERS is also a story of London. The novel is rooted in its streets, workplaces, pubs and music, but a parallel society exists, where the planet’s wealthy are able to buy and sell whatever they like. This is a world from which the Londoners of this novel are excluded, resentment too often directed against their own kind. The Unity is the boys’ local pub and it is here that they form a tongue-in-cheek Sex Division to celebrate a new year. Based on the idea of a football league, the most Woman can offer Man is four points – unless she leaves her handbag unattended. HEADHUNTERS mixes humour and longing as the real feelings of these men break through.
Extract of “HeadHunters”
BEAUTIFUL GAME
Carter was first off the mark, and it wasn’t much of a surprise. He walked into The Unity with a smile that didn’t need explaining. The dirty cunt had been dabbling again. The others likened him to the Ooh Ah Cantona Man United side — he had flair and the ability to grind out a result when the occasion demanded. The lads did this on the quiet as they didn’t want to give him the satisfaction. He got enough of that elsewhere.
The other four members of the Sex Division nursed half-full glasses, watering hangovers, prepared to wait for confirmation of the Carter score-line. If the result wasn’t in much doubt, then there was still the small but important matter of totting up the points. But the shag man was going to take his time and passed the rest of the boys on his way to the bar.
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