Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything appeared perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seemed a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if the guy was a bit of a nonentity, there was no chance of being caught, and you quite fancied his wife. Easy money...
But that's where Sean was wrong, and, when he realised that he'd been led up the garden path the whole way, he decided he needed to fix things. To fix everything.
King of the Ants is dark, disturbing and violently comic. In the tradition of writers such as Iain Banks and Chris Brookmyre, Charlie Higson pinpoints the casual vagaries of evil and its attendant powers.

'A brave, abrasive, alarmingly realistic debut' Daily Mail