Wotcha? a contraction of the 15th century English greeting ? what chere be with you?? Watcher n a person who watches or observes somebody orsomething. A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who? s condemnedforever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid gluedto his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can? t not see, he? sturned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! toformer rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard ? Winston? Smith who? swatched by millions among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who? sorchestrating revenge for Winston? s teenage betrayal through thesinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain. Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenageson Joe, who? s abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister? Christian? cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helplessin a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched bythe world? s media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives and their own souls from thefilth that? s about to drown them. Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eyeof born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us butit? s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coalblack humour andsex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bittersweet nostalgiatrip and builds up to the pace of a thriller. CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those? parental advisory? stickers they put on CDs these days. Does thatmake WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn? t read? Inthe author? s opinion absolutely not. ? If rude words and references tosex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book? s not foryou. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is whatseparates ? naughty? from ? evil?, I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read theredemption between the lines.?
