INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Sean Penn has written his first novel and it probably won't be going down as the best book ever written.
Critics have slated Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, which is about a hitman working for US intelligence.
The book also references a fictional president, who is described as a "violently immature 70-year-old boy-man".
Publicity for the novel describes Bob Honey as a "contract killer for an off-the-books program[me] run by a branch of US intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm and others who drain this consumption-driven society of its resources."
It has been described by the New York Times as "a riddle wrapped in an enigma and cloaked in crazy". In his review, Jeff Giles says he had to "survive" reading the novel.
Sean Penn's debut novel is trashed by critics
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Posted on: 08:59 Thu, 29 March 2018
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