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Larger than life man-child, Jackson Grimes, is back in London. The city where he once gained fame and fortune as a restaurateur, raconteur and celebrated hell-raiser. But beneath his outrageous antics lies a darkness, rooted in a lifelong secret, which fuels his drive towards self destruction. …Until he meets the enigmatic Julia at the precise moment she has a catastrophic, life changing

The book is a satire on the New Zealand justice system which goes out of its way to treat criminals with deference and respect and adopts a benign approach to mitigate punishment to a level that can only be described as style="color:#333333;">As one reader put it: You've got to be out of your mind to read this  It's wacky, it's funny and it's packed with awful puns, silly jokes and weird references to Shakespeare, Gilbert & Sullivan and Alexander Pope. It also has a pre-published review/quote by the White House Resident which is genuine fake news. And it goes from bad to verse (pardon the pun) with a 74- stanza poem on a cricket match -- which is a scream if you happen to kno...