New release, Part Three of the ‘Meat’ trilogy
1849. Salome Azul, daughter of a powerful politician, flees Buenos Aires at the height of the Argentinian civil war. In London she enlists the help of Irishman Sean Ryan to open The Nightingale, a high-class brothel and opium den that will be used to entrap and blackmail London’s political elite.
In doing so she will make enemies, but it is the demons Salome has carried with her from Argentina that will prove her most relentless foe. In order to survive, she must eliminate all weakness from her character. Doing so will mean cutting away all she cherishes most.
In the pursuit of power, unrelenting sacrifice is what decides who lives and dies.
Finally, after beginning this sordid and debauched affair four years ago, my ‘Meat’ series is coming to an end with new release, The Jaguar. The trilogy, comprising three core novels and a side novella (A Whore’s Song), has been a wild ride. What started out as little more than a way of processing, via the medium of fiction, some dark and hidden stuff buried way down in the depths of my psyche, has morphed into a transcontinental, inter-generational exploration of power and dehumanisation with cannibalism as the primary thematic vehicle.
Well, that’s all over now.
So what am I gonna write about now? Well, I have for some time been engaged in the writing of film and television scripts, and I am doing my damnedest to get someone onboard with the feature-length screenplay for Meat. By God, I’m gonna make it happen.
Until then, stay tuned for more updates.