Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
The time has come to examine the nouns that the average person uses most in a day, a year, or even perhaps a whole life.
THE AUTHOR of what has been described as the definitive dictionary of slang is gobsmacked, gutted, throwing up bunches, honked, hipped and jacked like a cock-maggot in a sink-hole.
The Husband
Dean Koontz
Bantam; 416pp
It’s another boring day in paradise for gardener Mitch Rafferty, planting impatiens on a rich client’s lawn.
THE TOOLS of his trade were a sharp razor blade and a brass neck.
