Whatever Gets You Through the Night

  • Author Charlie Higson
  • Narrator Charles Higson
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Run Time 11 hours and 42 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Crime and mystery fiction.
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What to expect

'Higson's new book will certainly get you through the night, though you may not get a lot of sleep...' Mark Billingham



'Terrific' The i
'Loud, bright, fast and funny - a perfect read' Guardian
'Hugely entertaining' Sunday Times
'A slick satirical thriller' The Sun

Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks. But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer, specialising in getting people out of places they don't want to be with the minimum of fuss, publicity and violence. The job in Corfu should be easy - spring Lauren, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, from the luxury compound of the tech billionaire, Julian Hepworth. Hepworth's young, handsome and charismatic - he's also a suspected paedophile.

But as McIntyre sets up his operation, things quickly start to slip out of control. Soon, he has to contend with Albanian gangsters, Greek drug dealers, psychotic bodyguards, flat earthers and spoilt, wealthy teenagers looking for dangerous kicks. Everything converges on a glamorous summer party at Hepworth's spectacular villa; can McIntyre play the different factions off against each other and get Lauren to safety without things going horribly wrong?

Critics Review

  • Charlie Higson coming back to the world of adult thrillers is a major event. And what a comeback. Higson’s new thriller will certainly get you through the night, though you may not get a lot of sleep…

    Mark Billingham
  • A hugely enjoyable sun-soaked thriller: hard-edged but warm, tense but funny, vividly ultra-modern and yet deliciously old-fashioned

    Christopher Brookmyre
  • Whatever Gets You Through the Night marks the return to adult fiction of Charlie Higson. Set on the sun-soaked island of Corfu, it dives into the darkness beneath the surface of the Mediterranean idyll.

    Daily Mail
  • ‘…the links between these components tighten in a richly satisfying way, until the book reaches an exhilarating extended climax at a spectacular party thrown by Hepworth to show everyone how great he is…’

    Readers Digest
  • This hectic, helter-skelter thriller is what his adult fans have been waiting for all this time

    Sunday Times
  • Rather more upbeat, and with far better weather, is Charlie Higson’s return to crime fiction for grownups. . . It’s loud, bright, fast and funny – a perfect read for a dreary month.

    The Guardian, Books of the Month

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