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SOYEZ RÉALISTES, DEMANDEZ L’IMPOSSIBLE. The future rarely arrives in tune… this book arrives intentionally out of tune, its frequencies are scraped against the grain so that the static itself becomes a signal. From Buzzcocks to Bob Dylan, from attention metrics to AI slop, it shows how creativity survives once the Spectacle starts auto-tuning itself.

Part fact, part fiction, memoir and conspiracy theory, how-to and misunderstood philosophy. More than this and yet also less. A plunge into the depths of the tormented advertising planner's psyche, trapped in a perpetual cycle of self-loathing, existential despair and exposing the gnawing emptiness that permeates his soul. And some other stuff about punk rock, memes, evolutionary psychology and the robot apocalypse.

But if I were to say: buy this book because, well, it’s publicity for my personal brand, you would get the ironic self-reflexivity. Yeah? It’s the dialectic paradigm of reality, constructivist neo-cultural theory and rationalism, baby! Should you bear a grudge? Is business the best art? Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Could you make it with Frankenstein? And more. Confused? You will be.

A proto-meme is beginning to ‘go critical’. Somewhere the advertising business kinda lost the plot, we’re not sure exactly sure where. So many incompetents, who can’t know we are incompetent because the skills we need to produce the right answers are exactly the skills we lack in order to know what a right answer is. What happens now? Who knows? But let’s tackle it head-on and take a hair-raising ride to the Dunning-Kruger peak of advertising…

The year is 1996. 24-year-old Jimmy Irvine quits the tombstone grey skies of Scotland for the sun-kissed beaches of Dubai. A news reporter and small-time club DJ, Jimmy soon becomes exposed to the city’s underbelly of organised crime - a seedy world which has infiltrated the cabin crew of an Arabian airline.

In what is a sweltering playground for expats in the desert, everything is there for the taking - the drugs, the sex, the raves, the fame - and Jimmy carves out more dubious money-making schemes as he ignites Dubai's first Summer of Love. This is a duplicitous, corrupt society full of greed, with passion and paranoia running high and troubled Jimmy doesn't even know if he can trust himself let alone anyone else. The fight is now on for survival

'Three Stripes And Out' is a three part collection of all the Cola Boy books. Jimmy's story starts in 1996 as the 24-year-old quits the tombstone grey skies of Scotland for the sun-kissed beaches of Dubai. An ambitious news reporter and small-time club DJ, he’s revelling in the excesses of expat life, pushing boundaries, trying to make a name for himself and daring to organise Dubai’s first desert rave. But the consequences are severe as he soon falls deep into Dubai’s criminal underworld.

From the brutal grind of Royal Marines training to the sweat-soaked heart of Britain's early Acid House scene, a mentally-scarred Cammie Robertson stumbles into a chaotic world of violence, sex, drugs, and redemption. This is the unfiltered tale of late-80s Britain – colliding worlds of music, cultures and politics. A moment in time, where military discipline meets ruthless extremism and where one wrong move means the end. Another gritty, pulsating story from the author of Cola Boy.