WARNING! This is a book about sex, death and freedom. This book is not for the faint-hearted, or for any kind of hearted. If you are sensitive, have a sense of propriety, or have a working moral compass, this book may horrify and disturb you with its sick machinations, its pitch-black comedy and its utter misanthropic despair. Just a heads up.

The voyeur: Knowledge is lust.
The pervert: The fantasy is everything.
The sadist: The answer to all things lies in death.

Mr White. Kidd Red. Johnny Black. Three deviants in a violent, sickly sexual dystopia where completely opposing laws and moral codes are just a short walk away. Guided by a corrupt sense of moral subjectivism, they form an uneasy friendship. Each tormented by his own grotesque existence. But the greatest danger is making sure they don’t lose track of what is real…

Enter the city of Rule and the world of the moral zeroes.

This is rock n' roll writing. Its energy reminds me of early Amis, its articulation reminiscent of a Tarantino screenplay... Brilliantly sleazy, scum and filth visibly oozes from between the words on the page. Each paragraph leaves you breathless, each moving with such runaway-train speed you almost expect one to crash into the next. And it’s very funny.

With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Palahniuk, Orwell and Steinbeck, but a take-no-prisoners style all his own, Set Sytes' 'Moral Zero' is a pacy, thought-provoking read, guaranteed to crack your grin wide open and make you squirm in equal measure.