It’s a freezing Glasgow winter. It’s 1997. New Labour is in power. Things can only get better. Following New Labour’s sweep to power, a generation of teens – rich and poor – known only as the GOMA Kids, drift aimlessly into self-destruction. Spinning through a relentless winter of decadent parties, Adam is just trying to survive, dealing in prescription drugs to his capricious, theatrically-depressed, clientele. Still grieving his mother’s death from cancer, and an ever-absent father, Adam tries to blot out his bleak and alcoholically bitter landscape, but Scotland appears to be looking for light – no matter how artificial – in all the wrong places. This is an urban thriller in the style Hubert Selby Jnr, JG Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis.
Compared to Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting" by Scottish Literary Voice, Andrew Raymond Drennan's startling debut shocked and awed upon its release in Autumn 2009.
"Much in common with Irvine Welsh."- SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS
"A molotov cocktail in the face of Scottish literature"- SCOTTISH LITERARY VOICE
"a well realised novel with a nice sense of place and some great set pieces..promising for the future of Cargo." -THE SKINNY
"A Godless little book"-SCOTTISH CATHOLIC ALLIANCE
