About Tomas
There’s only money and sex
Bloated bankers, Russian roubles, salacious socialites and filthy footballers: this is the meaning of life in the new millennium. Controlling it all is SHIT TV, the ultimate reality channel, which dares to put homicidal dwarves on rollerblades and obese mamas in tutus. Reluctant celebrity Tomas has had enough. Armed with a tommy gun and a revolver, he sets out to teach the world a lesson and becomes a messiah in the process. Along the way he will combat the Russian Great Bear, travel a thousand years into the future and redefine the West, aided by a militant judge, an angelic prostitute, a telekinetic alien and the greatest Frenchman who has ever lived.
James Palumbo’s fantastical debut is a brilliant riposte to the financial crisis now engulfing us. Like Candide and Gulliver before him, Tomas will startle your imagination, yet linger in your mind. For what seems grotesque, even impossible, has already happened...