Vagabond

I am sitting on the twenty-fourth storey of a hotel in Singapore. I am having a very serious nervous breakdown... If you want to know why the hero of A.P. Wolf's riotous novel is going quietly insane in a concrete tower block, you'll have to read Vagabond. It’s a story of twenty-four hour piss-ups, cock fights, mah-jong, and unsafe sex in the kampongs and back alleys of old Singapore. It features a pair of dogs called Rape and Pillage, a cat called Shitbag, a very large and very dangerous monkey, a crazed older brother called Dave, a posse of under-age and over-curious daughters of local army officers, various murderous Marines, and Richard Chan, the most awe-inspiring man in all Singapore. And one hell of a lot of Tiger beer. And it all ends... well, badly