Publisher's Synopsis
The best (of comic writing out this summer) is The Killing Joke... Great fun - Peter Gutteridge, Observer Horowitz's novel takes a simple "what if" and allows the answer to unfold more or less logically, gathering laughs as it speeds away from reality - Sunday Times Making jokes is no laughing matter A man walks into a bar. Unfortunately this is where the troubles begin for Guy Fletcher. When he protests at a feeble joke he overhears in his grotty local pub, he finds himself headbutted and struck by an idea in quick succession. Is it possible to find the origins of the joke? He begins to trace the source, only to find dead ends wherever he turns. And strange things keep happening to him, from flies in his soup to footprints in his butter. Not to mention the sinister Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman who appear to be stalking him. As Guy edges closer to the source, he begins to realise that making jokes is no laughing matter.
