DOWNRIVER, a novel by IAIN SINCLAIR

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What people say about ‘Downriver’:

“Not much about boats.” Boating Monthly

Downriver is the story of people, people who go………..downriver. Some people go upriver, but this novel is not concerned with them, oh no, that would be too easy.

Inspector Machette discovers a body on the River Thames – “Bucket and Spade job!” he quips to his adjutant Bill “I’ve killed it!” Fruddie. Thus starts an amazing adventure set among the teeming, rancid dens of the Port of London authority that terminates... ……….downriver….the place we all end up, if………we take to boats and just drift with the unforgiving tide……….of life.

The Triad razor gangs and the Spliff Billy gangs who regularly congregate around sour neighbourhoods such as the Spill-Me-Guts Pub on Limehouse Causeway and the Jolly Hoopers at Frizzlemetimbly Yard are at each other’s throats. Evil? - they just can’t get enough of it! And drugs? - don’t talk to me of drugs! these people eat the stuff, they’re vermin just vermin and they don’t even wash properly.