Date : 02 March
2006
CAN A PUNK ROCK LEGEND FIND WHAT MONTY
PYTHON COULDN'T?
Christopher Dawes lives in a quiet
suburban street opposite punk rock legend Rat Scabies, the former drummer of The
Damned and a man in the habit of setting his drums on fire while playing them. Life
with Rat as a neighbour isn't run-of-the-mill and things get even stranger when he
announces they're going to France to begin a quest for the Holy Grail. The sacred
relic has eluded everybody from King Arthur to Adolf Hitler, but Rat reckons he knows
where it's stashed.
Once they've written a List Of Things To Do ("buy metal detectors - two!"),
the pair get to work on unravelling the mystery, which involves the Knights Templars,
the ancient sorcerer kings of France, a shadowy secret society called the Priory
Of Sion, the CIA, and the remote and spooky village of Rennes-le-Château in
the Pyrenees, where it begins to look as though someone - or something - wants to
stop them finding out anything at all...
Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail is an hilarious detective story, a surreal road trip,
a rich historical yarn and a testament to the bizarre nature of many friendships.
"The Da Vinci Code gets the
punk rock treatment"
(The Bookseller)
"A dizzy and highly enjoyable caper... Dawes has enough stories up his sleeve
to raise the hairs on your neck"
(Kirkus)
"Proof that reading The Da Vinci Code need not induce brain necrosis"
(The Times)
"You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried... Neat, neat, neat!"
(Entertainment Weekly)
"Don't be misled by the fact that Scabies wears his slippers throughout the
entire book. A genuine English eccentric whose appetite for life and thirst for mischief
look to be undiminished by age, he apparently set out on his quest fully believing
it might be successful."
(The Independent)
"Very weird and goofy and quite irresistible"
(Bookline)
"The best book Jon Ronson never wrote"
(Rival Tribal)
Click here to buy RAT SCABIES
AND THE HOLY GRAIL for £7.25 at amazon.co.uk
and don't forget to check
out Slipper "Earworms" CD featuring Rat at the... drums. |
