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385 pages, Paperback
First published April 24, 2012
“These people are not our friends, Nic; you’ve got to see that. They just squeeze us dry then move on to the latest one-book-wonder, probably a ghost-written book with a celebrity name on the cover. We’re a commodity to these bastards, Nic, something to manage until it no longer provides benefits. Then it’s cut and run. Hell, their whole industry still works the same way it did a hundred and twenty years ago!”And he doesn’t miss the chance for a poke at the critics too:
“They miss the point that, although we write popular fiction, we use it to say what we want about this world we live in. They’re too busy being wined and dined by the publishing houses and Lit Agents to bother about the damed writers, Nic.”So we have a writer, writing about a writer, who solves a thriller conspiracy by…writing. I think Eric J. Gates is all those brilliant writers, and I don’t hesitate to give Outsourced five stars out of five. (And, when that box gets opened, the cat will probably add another couple of stars.)