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  • Published: 15 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099478232
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99

Cannon Fodder



Another viciously hilarious, cultish collection of short stories from the author of the acclaimed The Suicide Kit.

A college reunion that ends in a bloodbath... A superhero too depressed to save the city... A man so deep in debt he is prepared to strike a terrible deal... A job that no one dares take... A doomed expedition... And a death-row romance... In Cannon Fodder, the creator of The Suicide Kit takes us to a place where life isn't just cheap, they're giving it away.

  • Published: 15 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099478232
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

David L. Hayles

Born in East Sussex in 1970, David L. Hayles studied film and theatre at London University. After a year in the Caribbean working as a cocktail waiter, he returned to London to study journalism before going on to work for MTV and the BBC. He is the author of The Suicide Kit.

Praise for Cannon Fodder

Imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected adapted for the screen by Tarantino and you're pretty much there

Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday

Genuinely excellent

The Sun

Sussex writer Hayles has a dark, skewed outlook on the world and combined with a fiendish sense of humour, it makes these stories well worth the time

Glasgow Herald

Hayles nails wildly different voices with a few short strokes, then washes it all down with a flagon of treacly black humour

Arena

Hunter S Thompson would have loved these tales. Beautifully weird and told in deceptively simple prose

Daily Express

Hayles offers a second dose of black humour and testosterone in equal measure...hilarious

Big Issue

Roald Dahl on Ritalin

Time Out

Hayles turns a wry, detached eye on the superficially reasonable ambitions of those driven insane by modern life...Hayles has a nicely twisted mind

Tribune

Finely offbeat...original, dark, sick, nasty...and often hilarious

Sunday Sport

Damned funny. Sharp, punchy, writing, well executed ideas and lashings of irony make for a gripping read

Knave Magazine