Bill Thunder is your average disaffected, world-weary misanthropic PI. He’s been there, done that, seen it all and got it remembered in the minutest, most obsessive detail. But this is a case that sees him tested to his limits. There’s nothing unusual about a missing man... but things are a little more complicated when the missing person happens to share a name with the world’s most famous recently-deceased celebrity. While on the hunt for Michael Jackson - a wealthy businessman - Thunder risks life and limb as he trawls the violent underworld of shady dealings and Internet pornography. ’The Bastardizer’ is a truly unique novel. Combining ultraviolence more brutal than ’A Clockwork Orange’ with the surgical detail of ’Grey’s Anatomy, ’ the misanthropic narrative of ’The Bastardizer’ carves a new groove against the well-worn furrows of genre fiction.