'The book I wish I'd written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next' Aravind Adiga
'Astonishing absorbing terrifying. Immensely good.' Philip Pullman''Red Pill stands as a
final blast of sanity against this new deranged reality. It is a literary masterpiece for a
barbaric new world rapidly running out of room for literary masterpieces.' The Spectator '[A]
deeply intelligent and artfully constructed novel.' Financial TimesFrom the author of White
Tears comes a breathtaking state-of-the-world novel about one man's struggle to defend his
values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past. 'From now on when you see
something you're seeing it because I want you to see it. When you think of something it'll be
because I want you to think about it...' And with those words the obsession begins. A writer
has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin
hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption. When nothing goes according to plan
he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives a violent cop show with a bleak and
merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton the charismatic creator of the show
and strikes up a conversation. It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart
of moral darkness. A conversation thatthreatens to destroy everything he holds most dear
including his own mind. Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right online culture creativity
sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries
that preceded it showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than
anything though this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything
else seems to have lost all meaning. Praise for White Tears 'Exquisitely attuned' Washington
Post 'Electrifying subversive and wildly original' TheNew Yorker 'A book that everyone should
be reading right now' TIME Magazine 'Haunting doom-drenched genuinely and viscerally
disturbing...' The Independent
