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Glengoth
"The next morning, when Brigadier McCallus opened the pedestal drawer by his left knee and reached in and then looked for the box, which wasn't there, with his fingers, he almost felt as if his heart had stopped and that he was about to die..."
Doctor Orpheus Monk, Master of Glengoth College, has been forced to escape with his dark secret, just before the beginning of the new academic year and not long before the sudden appearance of his sinister replacement, Rudolph Cant. Alcoholic, Alex Cameron and the hapless school chaplain find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue and terror that centres around the loss of a box that contains the means to turn Glengoth College into a clone farm for the Fourth Reich.
With fabulously grotesque characters skillfully portrayed, 'Glengoth' takes the reader on the wildest goose chase. Like all good comedy, there is a dark and sinister side to the novel and the tragedies are cunningly woven into the story.
This gothic satirical farce brings together the best and the worst of 'Porterhouse Blue', and 'Tom Brown's School Days'.
Doctor Orpheus Monk, Master of Glengoth College, has been forced to escape with his dark secret, just before the beginning of the new academic year and not long before the sudden appearance of his sinister replacement, Rudolph Cant. Alcoholic, Alex Cameron and the hapless school chaplain find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue and terror that centres around the loss of a box that contains the means to turn Glengoth College into a clone farm for the Fourth Reich.
With fabulously grotesque characters skillfully portrayed, 'Glengoth' takes the reader on the wildest goose chase. Like all good comedy, there is a dark and sinister side to the novel and the tragedies are cunningly woven into the story.
This gothic satirical farce brings together the best and the worst of 'Porterhouse Blue', and 'Tom Brown's School Days'.
369 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Daniel D. Watkins
10 books12 followersDaniel Watkins has written seven novels and is working on his latest novella, Kissimi and the Kid. His debut novel, Glengoth was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Awards (2012). His fourth novel, Where Are the Songs of Spring? is about a family's journey from the Egyptian revolution of 2011 to a dystopian future in 2020. The novel won a finalist medal in the Next Generation Indie Awards (2013) and received a Notable Book award (2013) from Shelf Unbound literary e-zine. Portrait of a Landscape, set in artists' colonies of New York and St. Ives, received a finalist medal in the Readers' Favorites Book Awards (2013). His novel, Spaceman Daddy was released in November 2014. In 2019, the completed Malcotte Worms trilogy was made available on Amazon in a three part collection called: Symposion. His novels are social and political satires. Daniel Watkins is an independent author and English consultant for the King Khalid Foundation. He now lives with his partner in Scotland.
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