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Phone

`WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button – turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! A five hundred-quid worry bead – and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . !`For the four characters at the heart of Will Self`s brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object – `NO CALLER ID – How should this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is devoid of an identity due to some psychological or physical trauma?` – but also it`s his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one.For Jonathan De`Ath , aka `the Butcher`, MI6 agent, the phone may reveal his best kept secret of all: that Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, and highly-trained tank commander – is Jonathan `s long time lover.And when technology, love and violence finally converge in the wreckage of postwar Iraq, the Colonel and the Spy`s dalliance will determine the destiny of nations.Uniting our most urgent contemporary concerns: from the ubiquitous mobile phone to a family in chaos; from the horror of modern war, to the end of privacy, Phone is Will Self`s most important and compelling novel to date.

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