Cigarette

Jason Purdy is a Northern Irish author, who has been writing short stories and poems from a very young age. He's mostly interested in dark but comical stories, about human nature and life in general. His style is blunt, acerbic and to the point. Cigarette follows the story of Dave Benson, an alcoholic ex-gangster with a missing finger, a short temper, and a penchant for constantly messing up his own life. Cigarette is the first of a trilogy, and what started as a one-off has turned into a gripping, hilarious, tightly paced crime series, in which Dave continues to make incredibly stupid decisions with little to no obvious sense of self preservation. Jason says that he plans to continue to write until he drops dead or his hands fall off. With any luck, those two events will happen at the same time rather than independently of each other.