NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction--from one of the most gifted novelists of his generation (TIME). Lyrical and obscene colloquial and rhapsodic. --The New York Times First published in 1989 London Fields is set ten years into a dark future against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches Nicola Six a black hole of sex and self-loathing has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday November 5 1999 as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young--a writer suffering from a long bout of writer s block--stumbles upon these three he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.