KING DEATH

Book ID/图书代码： 12844009B33771

English Summary/英文概要： Kumiko saw it first. A heart – a human heart – slithering down outside the window of a train travelling between London Bridge and Blackfriars. Someone must have thrown it out from a carriage in front. Kumiko is determined to find out who – and why. But Skelton was sitting next to Kumiko on the train and he saw it too, so he also wants to get to the bottom of the mystery. Or he says he does, but really he just wants Kumiko back, because she’s walked out on him, just like that, and left him heartbroken.
Each for their own reasons, Kumiko and Skelton set out – separately – on a bizarre trail of discovery. Darting between dingy student pubs, the roofs of Borough Market and the corridors and car-parks of Guy’s Hospital, they become embroiled in the seedy world of young medical students, until eventually the gossip and the stories lead them both to the hospital’s infamous dissection lecturer – known behind his back as ‘King Death’ …
When Kumiko and Skelton see a human heart thrown from the shadows onto the dirt of a railway track they begin an investigation that will lead them through the darkest reaches of a dangerous London and to a final confrontation with the man known as King Death.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一對力求追查真相的平凡男女，竟捲入倫敦皇家醫院的殘酷鬥爭。一樁意外手術的曝光，所有密謀因一顆心臟的發現，使隱藏於黑暗的殺手再度行兇...
倫敦皇家醫院發生了一起手術後猝死案例，所有人都將它視為意外事件。Kumiko和Skelton在返家的過程中，在倫敦車站發現一顆掉落於月台的心臟，進而開始追查過去的死亡檔案。漸漸的，Kumiko和Skelton發現這顆心臟的擁有者不是死於意外，而是被預謀殺害，而且兇手的下一個目標正是他們兩人。
沒有證據，沒有線索，沒有人相信這是一連串的謀殺行動，更不知道兇手的目的為何，只知道兇手追殺的對象似乎都與這顆心臟有關。身陷危險中的兩人，卻求助無門...(CL)

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導演：傑拉德馬可莫羅Gerald McMorrow / CMP Ltd
◆入圍柑橘獎及布克文學獎決選作家
◆最佳英國青年作家（Best Young British Writers）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Toby Litt是出身蘇格蘭的英國作家，代表作《Corpsing》，曾入圍柑橘獎及布克文學獎決選名單，也是英國Curtis Brown提名入選的十大優秀小說家之列。2003年當選「20位最佳英國青年作家（Best Young British Writers）」，其作品《Journey into Space》也被《衛報》選為1000 本人人必讀的小說之一。
Toby Litt著作
Adventures In Capitalism (1996)
Beatniks (1997)
Corpsing (2000)
Dead Kid Songs (2001)
Exhibitionism (2002)
Finding Myself (2003)
Ghost Story (2004)
Hospital (2007)
I Play The Drums In A Band Called Okay (2008)
Journey Into Space (2009)
Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968. He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship. He lived in Prague from 1990 to 1993 and published his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Adventures in Capitalism, in 1996.
He is the author of the novels: Beatniks: An English Road Movie (1997), a modern On the Road transposed to middle-England; Corpsing (2000), a thriller set in London’s Soho; and Deadkidsongs (2001), a dark tale of childhood. Exhibitionism (2002), is a collection of short stories that explore the boundaries of sex and sexuality.
A short story by Toby Litt was included in the anthology All Hail the New Puritans (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited The Outcry (2001), Henry James’s last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK.
In 2003 Toby Litt was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 ’Best of Young British Novelists’. He lives in London and is a member of English PEN.

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