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Ricky's Hand

by David Quantick (Author) Format: Paperback
3.9 out of 5 stars (43)
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From the Emmy Award-winning writer of Avenue 5, Veep and The Thick of It comes a funny, violent and thought-provoking horror story like nothing you’ve seen before.

Ricky Smart is a nobody, a Miami Beach paparazzo who scrapes a living snapping celebs. One day Ricky wakes up and realises there’s something wrong with his hand. It’s not his hand. In fact, it’s someone else’s hand. How does he know it’s not his? Because it looks different, feels different and – perhaps the biggest clue – has a four-letter word tattooed across the knuckles.

But hey, it's still a hand, and it works just fine, so that's ok. Except a week later, his other hand changes. And a few days after that, Ricky gets a new arm…

Ricky is losing his mind as well as his body parts, but he has to pay rent and those seedy photos aren't going to take themselves. The world needs candid shots of pop sensation and local girl Scala Jaq, almost as much as Ricky's bank account does. Yet Scala has a secret of her own, a secret that leads them to an unlikely partnership, the strangest support group ever, and revelations that threaten existence as they know it.

It's up to the celebrity and her tormentor to work out what to do with a world of misfits, explosions, and other people's bad tattoos. Because when you've looked for redemption in all the right places, you might need to try the wrong ones.

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  1. Print length
    304 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Titan Books
  4. Publication date
    9 Aug. 2022
  5. Dimensions
    12.95 x 2.06 x 19.79 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1803360461
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1803360461
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PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR

"Night Train" was a Financial Times pick for top 5 sci-fi books of 2020

"David Quantick is one of the best-kept secrets in the world of writing." - Neil Gaiman

"If you choose to only live in one alternative reality make sure it’s the one in which you read Sparks by David Quantick." - Ben Aaronovitch

"The style, content and characters of this dark, witty and surprisingly moving novel make David Quantick a Kurt Vonnegut for a new generation." - Sarah Pinborough, author of "Behind Her Eyes"

"I hadn't planned to read all of Night Train in one sitting, but I found myself doing just that. David Quantick's novel sets up a vast mystery and barrels deliriously toward a conclusion you'll never see coming like, I don't know, some kind of railed vehicle that operates in the dark." - David Wong, author of "John Dies at the End"

“A dark, nightmarish journey into a brand new sort of Twilight Zone, David Quantick’s Night Train is breathless, frantic, and creepy as hell. You’ll never see the twists coming.” - Christopher Golden

"Starting a trip on "Night Train" is like waking up in a scary game with no rules. I enjoyed trying to work out the parameters of this strange new world with Garland and exploring its ever-more-surreal carriages. When we finally start to discover where we are, we realise there's no going back. Night Train is pacy, amusing and gory and an entertaining companion on a dark journey." - Louis Greenberg

"Darkly funny." - The Independent

"Revels in strangeness and snarky dialogue." - Financial Times

“An unnerving horror story... Quantick delivers a fine sense of mystery.” - Morning Star

"Quantick presents a dark mystery of slowly uncovered memories in the midst of claustrophobic horror with skill and verve, creating a story that should satisfy any curious reader, genre fan or otherwise. Recommended for those who enjoy a little mystery or horror in their sf dystopias." - Booklist

"At times horrifying, at other times laugh-out-loud funny, and always entertaining, "Night Train" is a ride unlike any other." - Foreword Magazine

"Either a stone-cold classic that will last for decades if not centuries, or, at the very worst, the best summer read you’ll have this year. " - Sublime Horror

"Surreal and very clever read" - Horror DNA

"David Quantick has a medical condition whereby he literally cannot be unfunny." - Caitlin Moran

"Unfolds like The Da Vinci Code, only with a sense of humour and better grammar." - The Independent

"Ingenious, likeable, funny and entertaining." - The Spectator

About the Author

David Quantick is an Emmy Award-winning television writer for such shows as Avenue 5, Veep, The Thick of It and The Day Today. He is the author of "All My Colors", "Night Train", "Sparks", "The Mule", and two writing manuals: "How To Write Everything" and "How To Be A Writer". Find him at www.davidquantick.com or @quantick on Twitter.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 9 Aug. 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1803360461
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1803360461
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 2.06 x 19.79 cm
  • Best Sellers Rank: 894,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars (43)

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"David Quantick is one of the best kept secrets in the world of writing. He's smart, funny and unique. You should let yourself in on the secret."

- Neil Gaiman

David Quantick is an Emmy-winning writer who has written for Veep, The Thick Of It, Avenue 5 and many other shows. NIGHT TRAIN is his second novel for Titan.

Links to his work, including free downloadable short stories, can be found at his website, www.davidquantick.com.

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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  • Mike Batt
    5 out of 5 stars
    Quantick! hooray
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2022
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    This is the best book I’ve never read. I bought it the moment it came out and read two pages of it and then I got interrupted. But it has to be good because Quantick wrote it. Just as a Beatle song has to be good because they wrote it. Except Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Octopus’s Garden. He’s funny, dark, pacey, clever, mischievous. I love it and I haven’t even read it yet! Mike Batt 🤙🥳

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  • Bill Pope
    4 out of 5 stars
    Imagine Tarantino rebooted John Wyndham.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2023
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    Working in TV so much gave David Quantick an instinct above all else to entertain. This pacey thriller doesn’t disappoint on that score. His work as a music journalist has developed in him a punk sensibility too. It fizzes out of his damaged, relatably unpleasant and funny characters. Katie is especially fabulous.

    This must be adapted for the screen soon, surely.

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  • Who Fan
    5 out of 5 stars
    Bought this book due to one David Quantick's funny tweets.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2023
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    I haven't read the book yet but, if Mr Quantick's Fast Show-related tweet that inspired me to buy it is anything to go by, it should be great!

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  • Athena
    5 out of 5 stars
    A book you can binge
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2022
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    A real page-turner. Thrilling, weird and funny, as is his style. Started and finished on the same flight, almost didn't eat my meal.

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  • Nic Hamilton
    4 out of 5 stars
    Thoroughly enjoyable Sci-fi-horror-com romp
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2022
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    Once again Quantick has me wondering where on earth the story is going (in a good way) until at least half the way through. The characters were immediately relatable (even the obnoxious ones) and even the sci-fi (presumably) aspects seemed believable........I found it totally possible that one could wake up with someone else's hand.

    Clever, humorous and very nicely done.

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  • jean
    4 out of 5 stars
    weird but strangely readable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 August 2022
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    A weird and strangely readable book about Ricky who wakes up one morning with someone else's hand and his quest, with a similarly affected superstar, to find out why. Full of sly dark humour, lots of bizarre and violent deaths and an unbelievable plot line it managed to keep this reader hooked until the end!

    Thank you to netgalley and Titan for an advance copy of this book

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  • Sid Nuncius
    5 out of 5 stars
    Bonkers but fun
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2022
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    I enjoyed Ricky’s Hand. It’s a pretty mad plot, but it’s very well done and I found it an amusing and a gripping read.

    Ricky is a sleazy paparazzo in Florida, tracking Scala Jaq, a pop star. He wakes up one morning to find that he now has someone else’s hand...and it eventually transpires that others also have new, different body parts, including Scala. A support group is convened by the mysterious Don...and a weird, rather complex but entertaining story ensues involving time-travel, body appropriation and some major skulduggery.

    In the wrong hands this could be terrible, but David Quantick makes it immense fun. His characters are believable and very well drawn, the tension really does build and the dialogue is excellent – as you’d expect from such an experienced screen writer. There’s an excellent balance of humour, sharp observation and exciting plot and although this sort of sci-fi stuff isn’t usually for me, I enjoyed the book very much and I can recommend Ricky’s Hand.

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  • Capt.Scarlet
    1 out of 5 stars
    Possibly the "stupidest" book I've read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2022
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    Read like it was written by a sci fi fanboy who had just binge watched all the sci fi movies over the last 20 years then tried to shoehorn all the tropes into one story. Even the main plot is laughable.

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