A new novelist of prodigious talent -- Tobias Jones, Spectator. The Guardian praised Hawes as a satirist for his novels, Speak for England (2005) and My Little Armalite (2008). 5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant - … The spine may show signs of wear. His Kafka biography, Excavating Kafka (2008), caused outrage in Germany. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Jonathan Cape, 1996. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. James Hawes has debuted with a wonderful book -- tremendously readable and engaging, it seemed like Quentin Tarantino in type. A truly cool novel, "A White Merc With Fins" spits along at a pleasing clip, with a plotline that completely defies easy description. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Good. A White Merc with Fins by Hawes, James. Buy It Now. The dazzling debut of a new voice in fiction, this is the funny, unexpected story of a balding, thickening 28-year-old who, having spent the bulk of his twenties avoiding a career in the quasi-black market of London's temp agencies, now finds himself not only without a job, but seriously without prospects. See details- A White Merc with Fins by James Hawes. "A White Merc With Fins" has a very developed and intricate plotline that moves despite sufficient character development that never actually becomes the story itself. A White Merc with Fins.
A White Merc With Fins is determined and surprisingly successful at transporting the aesthetic of Pulp Fiction and the caper plot of Reservoir Dogs to Shepherd's Bush... Fast, sexy, bristling with more neologisms than a Douglas Coupland novel, GQ. Hardcover. A White Merc with Fins by James Hawes An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. James Hawes has debuted with a wonderful book -- tremendously readable and engaging, it seemed like Quentin Tarantino in type.

At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. A truly cool novel, "A White Merc With Fins" spits along at a pleasing clip, with a plotline that completely defies easy description. The first two, A White Merc with Fins (1996) and Rancid Aluminium (1997) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition.