Publisher's Synopsis
The defining quality of Brookmyre's writing is that it is perpetually in your face: sassy, irreverent, stylish - The Times REAL LIFE blows. Just ask Raymond Ash. As students, he and his friend Simon thought their futures would be paved with gold discs, gigs and groupies. Instead he's found himself in his thirties, a nervous new father and an even more nervous new English teacher, facing the fact that responibility has no Escape key. The last thing on Ray's troubled mind is a band reunion. For one thing, theirs wasn't exactly an amicable split; but a slightly large obstacle is that Simon has been dead for three years. So when Ray glimpses him walking through the Glasgow Airport, he assumes he's seeing things, until REAL LIFE starts getting weirder and more violent than any computer game...
