Karl Dresner should be on a plane to the Maldives with a girlfriend who wants more than he can give. Instead, he makes a decision he will live to regret and finds himself caught up in a bomb blast in London. Cut down in a blizzard of glass shards, Karl is left alive, but only just. The doctors repair the scars on the outside but the Karl who returns to Munich is a lonely, withdrawn man who punctuates his days with empty sex.
Barely connected with the world of the living, he remains an empty shell until he meets an impulsive and life-affirming Italian woman. Theirs is an awkward, angry beginning but she can see a future for Karl that he’s lost sight of himself. Scars Beneath the Skin is a dark modern love story set against the anxieties of the post-9/11 world.
Scars Beneath the Skin costs £8.99 and was published in May 2009.
ISBN: 978-1-906601-06-5
A J Duggan’s life changed on a sweltering day in Manchester in June 1996 when the city centre was torn apart by a 3300 lb bomb. Attempting to make sense of this experience, he began to write, eventually leading to this, his first novel. He was born in Liverpool in 1963, lives in Cheshire and works in the computer industry
Links: Author website ajduggan.co.uk and at Myspace.
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