This book begins with 'The first time I held a pancreas in my hands, I got an erection'. With such a defining start, you wouldn't be blamed for being cocksure that this book was going to be a page-turner. It turns out that it is not so much a page-turner as it is a stomach-churner filled with multiple graphic descriptions of slicing, dicing and cutting.

First published as The Repossession Mumbo and re-titled as Repo Men to coincide with the movie (starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker), the story tells of Remy, a former Repo Man - Repo Men being repossession men: Agents who repossess the various artificial body parts when people cannot pay up for them. His job is to cut payment defaulters open and take what belongs to the company who makes them.

But Remy is on the run in this book - on the run because he now has an artificial heart implanted in his chest as a result of a botched repossession, and he has fallen behind in his payments. What happens next is pretty cut-and-dry (literally) as he struggles to keep his cool (and his heart) in the ultimate ironic situation.

Not a particularly great read, neither is it absolutely limp, this book is everything the movie is expected to be and nothing more. Enjoy it on a particularly boring wait at the dentist or at a post office during bill payment time.