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Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail

Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail

by Christopher Dawes (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $8.65
Synopsis

Chris Dawes lives in a quiet street in Brentford, opposite Rat Scabies, former drummer with The Damned and best noted for setting his drums on fire while playing them. Life with Rat as a neighbour isn't run-of-the-mill and things turn even stranger when Rat announces that the two of them are going on a search to find the Holy Grail. The sacred relic has eluded everyone from King Arthur to Monty Python, but Rat reckons he knows where it's stashed. Once they've written a list of things to do ("Buy metal detectors!") the pair get to work on unravelling the mystery, which involves the Knights Templar, the ancient sorcerer Kings of France, a shadowy secret society called the Priory of Sion, the CIA and the remote and spooky village of Rennes-le-Chateau in the Pyrenees, where it begins to look as though someone - or something - wants to stop them from finding out anything at all ...RAT SCABIES AND THE HOLY GRAIL is a psychedelic road trip, a rich historical yarn, and a testimony to the sometimes odd nature of certain friendships.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 27 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0340832126
ISBN 13: 9780340832127
Book Overview: Punk rock legend Rat Scabies embarks on a real life quest for the Holy Grail.

Media Reviews
You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried ... Shot through with crypto-mysticism, freaky characters, and spooky/trippy historical revelations, GRAIL reads like a post-punk Travels with my Aunt and is almost as entertaining. As the Damned once sang: Neat, neat, neat! * Entertainment Weekly *
More credible than the DA VINCI CODE! * Mark Radcliffe *
The DA VINCI CODE gets the punk rock treatment * The Bookseller *
Dawes' sardonic account of their various encounters and misadventures asserts the value of believing in your friends, even if they believe in fairy tales. * The Independant on Sunday *
By the end it doesn't matter whether they've been successful in their hunt for the Holy Grail - its a thoroughly enjoyable, funny, touching and fascinating read and it's worth just going along for the ride * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
Author Bio
Christopher Dawes has written music journalism since the 1980s under the name Push. He was editor of the clubbing magazine Musik and of the male lifestyle title Mondo. He is the co-author of The Book of E (Omnibus Press, 2000). He lives in London with two ferocious cats, a large collection of records and CDs, and a lunatic across the street.