“Like a piss-soaked butterfly emerging from a cocoon, I push on over the bridge feeling like I’m establishing my transformation into my true self.” ManchesterBristolClubbingJohn BowieBristolnoirUntethered Quote Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“We were all puppets of someone in a self-perpetuating circle of pollutants, violence and hedonistic escapism.” ManchesterCrime FictionNoirBristolClubbingUntetheredJohn BowieBristol Noir Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“I open the toilet door and step out, my internal fire re-stoked, ready to face my demons, fight if need be and win. I’m raging, focused like a jungle warrior after his second bowl of tiger-cock soup.” ManchesterCrime FictionNoirBristolDirty RealismCrime NoirUntetheredJohn BowieBristol Noir Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“The bed lets out a slight gasp of air from the mattress like an old cat fart, but it looks like she’s too caught up in herself to notice.” ManchesterCrime FictionNoirBristolDirty RealismCrime NoirBristol NoirThrller Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“The room buzzes around us but we’re fixed on each other, engaged in a battle of who can deprecate me more. She obviously doesn’t believe such a man can exist and keeps at it, prodding and goading me like a fisherman harpooning an already beached whale.” ManchesterCrime FictionBristolHard BoiledDirty RealismCrime NoirUntetheredJohn BowieBristol NoirBrit Noir Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“There are two types of men when it comes to approaching lone pretty women in bars. The shit type and the don’t-have-the-balls-to-be-a-shit jealous type, and I was the latter and in situations like this the prey becomes the hunter and it’s all just an under-stocked meat market trading in egos, tits and shame.” QuoteThrillerManchesterNoirBristolDirty RealismUntetheredJohn BowieBristol Noir Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“I sit in the car, staring up at the big corporate beast of a hotel where everyone from prime ministers, presidents, pop stars and the red carpet parade had fucked, pissed, slept and golfed away our taxes and respect. I would need to strap on a pair before I enter.” ManchesterCrime FictionNoirBristolDirty RealismJohn BowieBristol NoirBrit Noir Book:Untethered Source: Untethered
“And like a fool, here I am again, lapping at the beast’s teats like a true fool, laying my head in the lion’s mouth as I hit it on the arse with a big stick.” ManchesterCrime FictionBristolCrime NoirUntetheredJohn Bowie Book:Untethered Source: Untethered