Phone av Will Self

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<p><b>''WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! A five hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . !''</b><br><br>For the four characters at the heart of Will Self''s brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - <b><i>''NO CALLER ID - How should this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is devoid of an identity due to some psychological or physical trauma?''</i></b> - but also it''s his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one.<br><br>For Jonathan De''Ath , aka ''the Butcher'', MI6 agent, the phone may r