The setting for Cocaine Nights is the Costa del Sol and the stylish resort of Estrella de Mar. Into the queasy beauty of this artificial environment steps Charles Prentice, a travel writer from London who has come to visit his brother Frank, manager of the resort's Club Nautico. Frank is in jail, having confessed to setting an explosive fire that has taken five lives. Certain that the confession was coerced, Charles launches his own investigation. As he allows himself to be drawn further into Estrella de Mar's dark underworld, this explosive novel accelerates toward a disturbing climax.
'Utterly compulsive' Sunday Telegraph
'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self
'The possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure' Guardian
'Guaranteed to keep you reading into the early hours' Sunday Times
'Thrillingly wired ... dazzlingly original' Independent
'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self
'The possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure' Guardian
'Guaranteed to keep you reading into the early hours' Sunday Times
'Thrillingly wired ... dazzlingly original' Independent
'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton