`As good as anything he has one of Self`s grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis` - "Financial Times". `Self`s enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of dueling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch` - "Scotsman". `A destabilizing, funny, abundantly Gothic tour de force` - "Guardian".