Skane: A Thriller in Verse
``The combination of blade-sharp verse and gritty thriller brings an epic-like quality to this bloody tale of vigilante violence. One-of-a-kind, unforgettable, and unmissable.``
– Richard Moriarty / The Sun
``Returning to the foundations of Western literature, Skane is what Goodfellas might have read like if written by Homer or Virgil. Ben Counter has cemented himself as the bard of the brutal.``
– Chris Riches / Daily Express
In a city controlled by crime, seven kingpins meet to discuss business, unaware a new threat has arrived to shatter their underworld.
Known only as Skane, his origin is a mystery. From the shadows he has been patiently and methodically planning their downfall.
Through arch manipulation, Skane will pit the seven princes against one another in one single night of unrivalled bloodshed.
Written by bestselling author and celebrated speculative fiction icon Ben Counter, Skane: A Thriller in Verse is a gripping, gritty thriller that delivers on all fronts – shocking violence, dark humour, and moments of outright horror – and which does so through the most unexpected of mediums: poetic verse.
A modern-day crime epic written in the grandest of narrative forms, Skane redefines the boundaries of contemporary storytelling and guns down preconceptions of what poetry can be.
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