Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De?Ath. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busner?s own mind is fraying: Alzheimer?s is shredding his memory and his newest possession is a shiny smartphone given to him by his introverted grandson Ben. Meanwhile, Jonathan De?Ath, aka ?the Butcher,? is an MI6 man who remains a mystery even to those closest to him, be it his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his spooky colleagues or multitudinous lovers. All of De?Ath?s acquaintances apply the ?Butcher? epithet to him, and perhaps there is only one person who...
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