'A wild sleazy drug-filled odyssey ... Doyle's maverick novel deserves the accolades coming
its way' Independent 'The best work to date from a writer who gets better and better with
each release' Irish Indepdendent 'A masterclass in what not to do' New Statesman 'His best
book so far: riddling irreverent fearless' TLS Rob has spent most of his confusing adult
life wandering writing and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now
stranded between reckless youth and middle age between exaltation and despair his travels
have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning. On a lurid
pilgrimage for cheap thrills and universal truth Doyle's narrator takes us from the menacing
peripheries of Paris to the drug-fuelled clubland of Berlin from art festivals to sun-kissed
islands through metaphysical awakenings in Asia and the brink of destruction in Europe into
the shattering revelations brought on by the psychedelic DMT. A dazzling intimate and
profound celebration of art and ageing sex and desire the limits of thought and the extremes
of sensation Threshold confirms Doyle as one of the most original writers in contemporary
literature.
