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Tamper

I’ve been reading Tamper by Bill Ectric. I’m enjoying it so much that I can’t wait till I’ve finished it to write something about it. For a start it does what all good art does and makes you think, “how could I ever do that?” Bill’s crisp visual descriptions are not so much Faberge egg as hand crafted ingenious piece of furniture with hidden drawers and false bottoms (nice). Bill describes the book as part Nancy Drew and part William Burroughs and you think okay yeah I get that because people always use that devise to give a flavour of the piece. The difference in the case of Tamper is that the book is exactly part Nancy Drew and part William Burroughs. There is, to my mind, a joy in the mysteries that are revealed as the book goes along. Bill outlines the machinations in such a way that I feel like I understand how Nancy Drew book works without having read one. The trick that I am trying to see from all angles is how Bill Ectric has written a book about the passing of youth that in