The Rumble of Thunder Grows as Clinicality Press Brew Up a Storm

York, United Kingdom, July 31, 2009 --(PR.com)-- It’s the classic detective fiction scenario: a woman calls in a state of panic. Her husband is missing. But how does a PI go about finding a man who shares a name with the world’s most famous recently-deceased celebrity? Through a trail of carnage and weirdness, is how.

Clinicality Press fearlessly unleash ‘The Bastardizer,’ the debut novel by Bill Thunder this Autumn. It’s a detective novel that packs a harder punch than the rest. A defining work of ‘clinical brutality,’ ‘The Bastardizer’ combines ultraviolence more brutal than ‘A Clockwork Orange’ with the surgical detail of ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ to forge a powerful genre-bending romp. On his quest, Thunder risks life and limb as he trawls the violent underworld of shady dealings and Internet pornography.

The narrative is jammed with high-octane action and snappy dialogue, making for a book that’s dark, abrasive and comical, often all at the same time. Weaving his way through a number of horrific scrapes, and merging fact and fiction to create a disturbing hyper-reality, Thunder finds himself in a race against time. But will he find Michael Jackson?

‘Mediocre crime fiction it ain’t. If the prose was any more hard-boiled, demolition companies would be buying up copies of this book and using them as wrecking balls. I’m not kidding when I say this book should be huge. The question is, is the world ready for it?’ – Christopher Nosnibor

Excerpt:

Ok, so I don’t expect to find her missing husband on the Internet, sitting around waiting for an IM on Facebook or in some dodgy chat-room used by paedophiles to groom kids, but I can at least do a bit of research and see if Mrs. Johnson’s – sorry, Jackson’s – story checks out.

It’s fucking hard work. Depending on whether or not you frame the search terms in speech marks or not, Googling Michael Jackson used to yield anywhere between (approximately) 32,000,000 and 49,600,000 hits. That all changed when he croaked, of course. Leaped to 35,000,000 to 63,000,000 dependent on whether or not you put the search terms in quotation marks within a couple of hours of the news breaking. By 7am on the 26th June, it was at 37,200,000 or 65,500,000, and three days later it was 49,000,000 or 84,000,000 depending. Within a week, it had hit 88,300,000 / 50,300,000. Insanity. Nothing like the premature death of a global celebrity to get the media buzzing. So while the Internet makes snooping easier, it can have its downsides.

It takes a lot of narrowing, a lot of experimental permutations of various key words and even more patience to find anything about any Michael Jackson who isn’t the Michael Jackson, and who also uses various permutations of Mark, Mike and Johnson by way of a name. I quickly calculated six different possible permutations. And that was just based on the three forenames and two surnames I knew of. These pseudonymous types were prone to using far more names than they ever let on as a rule. And my early impression was that Jackson / Johnson had all the traits of a classic confidence trickster.

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