Phil Strongman - Cocaine Pure Fiction Paperback Reviews . . . At the same time, he gets involved in various relationships, most dangerously chasing Anna a girl he has fallen for in a big way, and who happens, unfortunately, to be a drug-dealer's girlfriend. Strongman himself was a music journalist and the scenes portrayed here are undoubtedly a lot closer to the truth than many executives at record companies would like us to know. Everyone's looking for him backstage . . . ', it is cocaine which fuels this business and this novel is so drug-soaked one almost expects the pages to dissolve into white powder.
Booties mean bootlegs for the uninitiated' beingone example.
To compound things even the main character, Pete, who er suspect is semi-autobiographical, is unconvincingly portrayed. There are a few memorable moments which provide a beacon of relief in an ultra-crass world. Yet these moments are sparse and it proves yet again that is is simply not enough to have a hip subject matter, you have to be able to write well too. All of this is a pity because the seedy, semi-glamorous twilight world of the music industry's underbelly certainly has a lot of potential, and authors as diverse as Irvine Welsh and Thomas De Quincy have proved it possible to write lucid, often brilliant accounts of getting high. However this book leaves all this relatively untapped.