F-woman

Cynthia Lelague is a journalist by day and a vigilante, self-styled ?F-Woman', by night, when she hunts down the sex criminals who terrorise the streets of Los Angeles. On catching them, she trusses them up and leaves them for the police to find. After an encounter with her, these miscreants tend never to offend again, and F-Woman becomes a popular heroine, the subject of frenzied adoration in the city of superstars. But the sinister Dr Holocenter, chief psychiatrist of the LAPD and in charge of sex crime investigations, becomes obsessed with bringing her to his rather different version of 'justice'. Neglecting the other criminals at large in the city, he pursues F-Woman with single-minded mania. A thrilling cat-and-mouse drama ensues, culminating in a spectacular, terrifying and hilarious climax. Though written in English, F-WOMAN was a bestseller and a critical sensation in France and Germany, but has never before been published in the UK. At once a novel of ideas and a page-turner, a spoof on the superhero genre and a feminist text (albeit one written by a man), it is a gloriously unpredictable, unclassifiable and most of all enjoyable book by a writer poised to gain the recognition he deserves. AUTHOR Warwck Collins is the inventor of a new keel for sailing boats, as well as being the author of seven novels and an evolutionary philosopher. His provocative challenge to the Darwinist status quo, A Silent Gene Theory of Evolution, is being published in the spring by University of Buckingham Press. REVIEW: ?A page-turning, anarchic masterpiece' Der Spiegel (on F-Woman) ?Funny and profound? A classic moral fable about understanding and respect' The Times (on Gents) ?An erotic, beautifully crafted novel' Daily Mail (on The Rationalist) ?This novel really scared me? Move over Hal' Arthur C. Clarke (on Computer One)