A state of shock - Nicholas Salaman

Very funny, but very sinister story in bestselling style of Salaman's The Frights.

A female barrister is given the job of defending a male murderer. Drawn into his story, she becomes convinced of his innocence. At the same time, she is plagued by disturbing phone calls. Her boyfriend is studying the decline of institutions, convinced that society can no longer cope with the speed of change in electronic communication.

How do the threads pull together? A weirdly sinister - and at the same time indisputably very funny - experiment will draw the various players into a modern maze of virtual reality and political chicanery.

Salaman combines laugh-out-loud one-liners with a disturbing vision of the world just around the corner in a tour de force entertainment.