Novel with the lead character, Frank Thornton, a man of excess -- drugs, women, and money. When his past catches up to him, he has a decisions to make and issues to face. It is darkly humorous and introspective.

'Frank made a quick inspection of the fridge: one lousy beer. It wasn't doing anyone any good just sitting in there so he drank it, but it still wasn't doing anyone any good.

For Frank Thornton, nothing exceeds like excess. He drinks, he does drugs, he womanises, and he makes a motza as an advertising copywriter. His friends are talented. His love life is chaotic. Life is good But Frank's past is troubled and, if only he knew it, so too is his present.

When his world gets knocked off its axis, Frank has a lot to confront. There to help him are the beautiful Xin Xin Leroq, whose novels seem eerily prescient and Frank's self-diagnosis: heart cancer.

Bill Leak's first novel is darkly funny, confronting, and darkly funny again.