An amazing eyebrow-raising and hair-raising American first novel written with outstanding skill. A Californian twenty year old of modest means enters a chic East-Coast university where he is taken up by a small group of high-spending, intellectually arrogant, drug-taking and alcohol-abusing students from a wealthy background. The slippery slope on which they find themselves leads to an abyss of blackmail, cruelty, treachery and murder. A horrific story but unputdownable.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 22 February 2004 ) |
