Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Charles Higson
Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Charles Higson
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Whatever Gets You Through the Night
'Loud, bright, fast and funny - a perfect read' Guardian

Author: Charles Higson

Narrator: Charles Higson

Unabridged: 11 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/24/2022

Categories: Fiction, Crime

Synopsis

'Higson's new book will certainly get you through the night, though you may not get a lot of sleep...' Mark Billingham

'Terrific' The i
'Loud, bright, fast and funny - a perfect read' Guardian
'Hugely entertaining' Sunday Times
'A slick satirical thriller' The Sun

Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks. But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer, specialising in getting people out of places they don't want to be with the minimum of fuss, publicity and violence. The job in Corfu should be easy - spring Lauren, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, from the luxury compound of the tech billionaire, Julian Hepworth. Hepworth's young, handsome and charismatic - he's also a suspected paedophile.

But as McIntyre sets up his operation, things quickly start to slip out of control. Soon, he has to contend with Albanian gangsters, Greek drug dealers, psychotic bodyguards, flat earthers and spoilt, wealthy teenagers looking for dangerous kicks. Everything converges on a glamorous summer party at Hepworth's spectacular villa; can McIntyre play the different factions off against each other and get Lauren to safety without things going horribly wrong?

About Charles Higson

Charlie Higson started writing when he was ten years old. After university he was a singer and painter and decorator before he started writing for television. He went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is the author of the bestselling Young Bond books and the incredibly successful horror series, The Enemy.Charlie doesn't do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

I won’t lie, at the beginning I was hooked on this book. Then I got lost towards the middle, and at the end felt that a lot of side-stories were unfinished or unnecessary. The plot at the heart of this book is unnerving and seems heavily influenced by the likes of Epstein when it comes to money and y......more

Goodreads review by Lucy

I was so disappointed by this book, because I loved the Silverfin series and really do believe CH is a talented writer. What happened here! The female characters were completely one-dimensional, which was disappointing given the plot (cults, grooming, sexual abuse.) The inner monologues of the male c......more

Goodreads review by Adam

I've been waiting for Charlie Higson to come back to writing crime for a looooong time and it was 100% worth the wait. A book of twists and turns that will have you squirming one minute and laughing out loud the next. Absolutely bloody brilliant.......more

Goodreads review by Ian

Charlie Higson is probably best known for his TV roles in The Fast Show, or in writing terms for his YA young Bond series. This venture into adult fiction is set on the island of Corfu where a tennis academy run by a tech billionaire is a front for an abusive cult. The father of one of the girls hel......more

Goodreads review by Helen

The stunning island of Corfu is the setting for this madcap thriller. This book has it all.... cults, the lifestyle of the rich and famous, evil billionaires, drug dealers, flat earthers, gangsters, psychotic bodyguards and Macintyre, who is just trying to fulful his mission with the minumum of fuss.......more

Quotes

Charlie Higson coming back to the world of adult thrillers is a major event. And what a comeback. Higson's new thriller will certainly get you through the night, though you may not get a lot of sleep...

A hugely enjoyable sun-soaked thriller: hard-edged but warm, tense but funny, vividly ultra-modern and yet deliciously old-fashioned

Whatever Gets You Through the Night marks the return to adult fiction of Charlie Higson. Set on the sun-soaked island of Corfu, it dives into the darkness beneath the surface of the Mediterranean idyll. Daily Mail

'...the links between these components tighten in a richly satisfying way, until the book reaches an exhilarating extended climax at a spectacular party thrown by Hepworth to show everyone how great he is...' Readers Digest

This hectic, helter-skelter thriller is what his adult fans have been waiting for all this time Sunday Times

Rather more upbeat, and with far better weather, is Charlie Higson's return to crime fiction for grownups. . . It's loud, bright, fast and funny - a perfect read for a dreary month. The Guardian, Books of the Month

Higson is a terrific thriller writer. . . Tense yet funny, too The i

A triumphant return to adult fare from the Young Bond author. Financial Times

[Higson's] exuberant novel pulls off the Hiaasen trick of absorbing dark themes yet remaining a hugely entertaining read Sunday Times

Higson, author of the Young Bond kids' books, makes a fresh, funny return to adult themes with this slick satirical thriller. The Sun

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