Cross Country Murder Song, the debut novel by Philip Wilding, has been dedicated to late TIGERTAILZ bassist Pepsi Tate (aka "The Boy").

Wilding, the renowned rock scribe, radio producer, presenter and bounder was a close friend of the great man and when it came to a dedication, Pepsi was one of two important figures in Philip's life that he felt had to be given their due.

Already critically acclaimed by 'proper' papers no less, Cross Country Murder Song is published by Jonathan Cape/Random House, available from February 25th from all good high street book and online stores.

A novel description can be read below:

'The horror, indeed - this is gasoline sodden rock n' roll in paperback form!

On a journey from the Jersey Shore to the Pacific Ocean the driver crosses an America twisted beyond all recognition, as if in a fevered dream. He is pursued by ghosts of his traumatic past and the police, who have discovered the disturbing secret in his basement.

On and off the road, we glimpse the lives of people who are touched by the driver in one way or another - a porn star who can no longer perform; a widower looking for love; two parents who return day after day to the spot where their son was killed. Speeding past and stopping off along the way, the driver meddles, mixes and murders, heading towards the edge of the New World and to his own macabre realisation of the American Dream.

Cross Country Murder Song is a unique and visceral novel from a new voice in contemporary noir. Gripping, relentless and impossible to put down, it is a 21st-century road trip to the heart of darkness. A brilliantly ghoulish evocation of the American road trip - long days and longer nights set under the domed sky of one nation under God with one thing for certain; there's no way back.