By Martin Amis
London Fields is Amis's homicide tale for the tip of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of intercourse and self-loathing cause on orchestrating her personal extinction. The assassin might be Keith expertise, a violent lowlife whose basically passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the wealthy, honorable, and dimly romantic man Clinch?
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