num_pages: 304
description: Octave seems to have everything going for a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish apartment, girls, and a cocaine habit he can afford. But it soon becomes clear that he also has a serious problem with his life. From the moment when he storms out of the offices of a lucrative client after daubing the word pigs all over the walls with his own blood, things begin to spiral dangerously out of control. The top men in advertising? They've already started the third world war he claims. This belief inevitably spurs him on from violent words to violent deeds, stopping at nothing—not even murder.
language: English
title: £9.99
titlecomplete: £9.99
characters: Octavo Parengo
genres: Modern, French Literature, Novels, Roman, Literature, Business, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, France
ratings_count: 15455
series: Octave Parango
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist
publisher: Macmillan UK