‘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 Times From 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’ The New Yorker ' A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME
Magazine ‘Haunting doom-drenched genuinely and viscerally disturbing...’ The Independent
