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[Martyn Bedford] has a nice line in caricature: Finn's encounter with Mr Skins, a creamsuited drugs-runner who combines the traits of about four different Bond villains, is one of the book's most enjoyable episodes. Skins may be overwritten - he is so extravagantly nasty that he has his daughter's favourite puppy thrown into his crocodile pit - but he's also a creation of cartoonish malevolence and is pitchperfect for Bedford's pacy narrative.
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From draft to drift The Island of Lost Souls Martyn Bedford Bloomsbury, 384pp, £10.99
Martyn Bedford's sixth novel begins with as standardised a vis...See the full content of this document
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