Gallix, Andrew - Loren Ipsum

Writers are being murdered. Writers are being tortured. Heads are rolling; ponytails are chopped off; victims tarred and feathered. The French literary world lives in fear of the next attack. A nihilistic terrorist group takes responsibility, but their objective remains obscure. Loren Ipsum is an English journalist who moves to Paris to research a monograph on an underground writer called Adam Wandle. The terrorists’ slogans are all culled from his works. Has Adam been coopted as their guru, or is he actually their éminence grise? And what of Loren Ipsum herself? Set on the Riviera and in Paris, Loren Ipsum is a darkly comic satirical novel that takes the reader on a merry dance with pirates, Borges’s cat, a naked satyr, menage a trois, mermaids, The Green Man, Le Hareng Rouge café, the Angelus Novus, Yves Klein Blue, and musicians who pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone… Will they ever be able to leave the 21st century and make it to the Blue Island?