ghost byte
"Brendan Stevens' life is falling apart. His dad and his brother have gone to live on the other side of the country, and his mother hates flying. His girlfriend or - to use her term - ex girlfriend, Helen Wong, is gong out with his worst enemy, and there's a strange demonic presence in Brendan's bedroom - apart from his socks."
200pg, paperback, 0091829402, publication date 25-Feb-1994
This is the second book written by John Larkin. Ba-ba-buuuuum! Most 'parently the second book is the hardest to write-- the second anything is the most difficult, isn't it? But unlike Franz Ferdinand's second album, you know what, Ghost Byte is pretty good. It's kinda like a taste of what's to come in John's later books, methinks, what with the 'strange demonic presences' and all (What is a 'normal demonic presence'?) which get another go in Growing Payne, Cyber Payne, and Deja vu.
