D. B. C. Pierre

Ariel Panek, a promising young academic, is stranded in a lonely guesthouse on the Suffolk coast, his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead. He falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family…

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat. 2003 Man Booker Prize winner. X rated, contains offensive language.