The Eel (Essential Prose)

Writer Jack Fingon realises too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars - to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where "life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun".

Critics have variously described David MacKinnon's novels, including Leper Tango as "deviant," "offensive," "unvarnished" and "hilarious." He has been compared to Henry Miller, Wiliam Burroughs, James Cain, Curzio Malaparte and Thomas Pynchon.