The Businessman: A Tale of Terror

A TALE OF TERROR When Bob Glandier, a nasty and corpulent businessman, murders his own wife, he thinks he has got away with it. When Giselle turns up to haunt him, he thinks he is hallucinating. But he isn't. And it isn't just a fantasy when he makes love to Giselle's ghost. And it's no joke when his halfling offspring offers him a choice between Heaven and Hell. Poor Bob Glandier... The Businessman is a terrifyingly light-hearted novel about life after death and how it can be used to wreak a horrible revenge . . . `Each of the sixty short chapters of The Businessman is a tour de force of polished, distanced, sly narrative art . . . always the vision of America stays with us: melancholic, subversive and perfectly put . . . In this vision lies the terror of The Businessman' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ` Gruesome scenes which are genuinely chilling' STARHURST Front cover illustration by Neil Breeoon