Are you too fat? Old? Ugly? Have you tried all the fad diets and the dangerous plastic surgery with no results? Why not give us a try. At the Skin Dealers we can give you the perfect body, the perfect life with just the stroke of a pen. Professional friendly service guaranteed. Why struggle with second rate when perfect is just a signature away? After all, forever is not as long as you think…Fat social misfit Steven Burrows makes a Faustian deal with the Devil’s right hand man Lenny Black, selling his soul for the perfect body. But Lenny has bigger plans, to build an empire and enslave humanity with a scheme so grand it will bring Hell out into the open. All he needs is an unwitting patsy to front it. But there are other hands in play with plots of revenge, lust, a management buyout of Perdition and someone trying to save Steve from the eternal torment that awaits. In a fast moving novel of deals within deals, duplicity and ever changing faces, the Skin Dealers is a dark comedy adventure that takes the reader on a madcap journey of life, death, and damnation. With in-jokes and cameos from The Divine Comedy, Faust, and Waiting for Godot, award winning author D G Jones relentlessly pokes fun at the notions of beauty, the desire to be perfect, politics, the mass media, religious morality and plenty more besides.Originally written in 1993, The Skin Dealers finally makes it’s eagerly awaited debut in the eBook world. Contains some sex and violence.Bonus content: This edition contains three of the lost additional chapters.A Novel of stupidity and damnation.
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