The Sandman

Miles Gibson's cult novel from 1984 returns to print with a new preface by the author.

Growing up in a small hotel in a shabby seaside town, lonely William 'Mackerel' Burton amuses himself by perfecting his conjuring tricks. In adult life his magic turns lethal as he stalks the streets of London - the butcher in rubber gloves, the acrobat called Death. He is the Sandman.

'A splendidly macabre achievement... As an account of descent into homicidal mania it has seldom been bettered.' *Time Out*

'Unspeakable acts are reported with an unwavering reasonableness essential to the comic impact...' *Times Literary Supplement*

'Written by a virtuoso - it luxuriates in death with a Jacobean fervour.' *Sydney Morning Herald*