Set at the fag-end of the 60s at the moment when Swinging London is starting to take on a darker hue in the wake of Charles Manson’s murders, and framed as a novel within a novel this novel is a homage to the great oulipo experiments in fiction. It is the story of a psychopath called Raymond Novak and his untimely demise told entirely in ‘polari’ – a language developed and used mainly amongst the metropolitan homosexual community in the time when being gay was still a criminal offence.