Comedians of Violence

by Bill Bailey


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Softcover
£18.58
Softcover
£18.58

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 02/07/2003

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 664
ISBN : 9781410734419

About the Book

This hair-raising, action-packed political thriller surges from England and America to contemporary Vietnam as a small group spearheads resistance to compulsory globalisation. A sinister organisation representing commercial interests infiltrates governments and violently opposes all who stand in the way of global dominance by the transnational cartels. The British Labour Party unexpectedly elects a radical leader, which attracts a violent response. As Harvey Gillmore, the international press baron, humiliates and brutalises everyone in his path, the focus turns on the single man most feared by the corporations. J W Haug, an American citizen living in London is the one they now all want to kill. A swift, amusing, sexy, gripping tale that storms through to the climax with an erotic, pulsating beat.


About the Author

Born in a small rural town in North Carolina, Bill Bailey began his itinerant life after graduating from university with a degree in philosophy.  Subsequently ejected by the US Army, he found work as a prison guard in Canada before briefly prospecting for gold in British Columbia.  Having meanwhile accidentally married a Texan heiress, he moved to Houston, Texas where he managed a ranch, scrambled motorbikes, rallied sports cars, worked as a bouncer, taught English and French, cut wheat and organised the first white collar union in the US meat-packing industry.  Backing quickly away from Texas after stumbling into the acting profession he moved to London.  Within a year of his arrival he became the first full-frontal male nude on the British stage.  In the course of his acting career he has worked extensively in film – in Hollywood and Europe – television and London’s West End.  He now lives with a foul-mouthed parrot called Dizzy.