For those who remember what it is like to be lost, and suffering from a death of the soul - this is a black comedy that turns a tainted mirror on to some of the most accepted and corrosive problems in our society.
Welcome to Munks, home to the lost, the lonely, and those in perpetual limbo. The ceiling is sweating, the floor is sodden and sticky with booze and vomit, the music is screaming through the speakers, the air is thick and heavy with sweat, the latest up-and-coming band are making an escape from the stage following their last song, the bouncers stand on the sidelines, watching, numb to the noise, and the wild bunch, the reprobates, throng to the bar to slake an endless thirst. They will drink and dance and chew each other's faces off until the well is as dry and as black as their souls, and the manager is closing all the fire exits as a new dawn fades.
But the glory days cannot go on forever. Cracks are starting to show. Everyone in town says that Munks is not like it used to be. New owners with wayward ideas are determined to clean up this place of historic moral bankruptcy, and bring the 'big' bands back to have their breakthrough moment on a dying dance floor.
Amongst the rot, the decay, the crime, and the hedonism - a young man tries to save the club from ruin, instead of saving both himself and everyone in it.
Both a brilliant social commentary, and a rip-roaring page-turner that will have you wondering just what insane event will occur next, 'The Reprobates' is a transgressive, award-nominated novel that examines those dark spaces we hide in, concealing ourselves within plain sight, a subject where very few novels have gone before.
