Narco Polo
Iain Sinclair, 23 January 1997
Mr Nice: An Autobiography
by Howard Marks.
Secker, 466 pp., £16.99, September 1996,0 436 20305 7 Show More
by Howard Marks.
Secker, 466 pp., £16.99, September 1996,
Pulp Election: The Booker Prize Fix
by Carmen St Keeldare.
Bluedove, 225 pp., £12.99, September 1996,0 9528298 0 0 Show More
by Carmen St Keeldare.
Bluedove, 225 pp., £12.99, September 1996,
“... buried beneath an excess of facts. It’s the first reflex of the con man, the bullshitter, to lay down a smokescreen of names, dates, addresses. Bore the interrogator into submission. Given all that weight of evidence, frequently offered in the language of a statement to the police (‘Moreover ...’), imaginative revisions of the fabulist tendency will ... ”