After his foray into Miami with *The Sexual Life of Siamese Twins*, Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the cornerstone of his literary universe, around which a cast of characters orbit, their paths intertwining in the successive novels set in the city.

Here, the protagonist is an old acquaintance, Juice Terry Lawson, who had already made an appearance in *Cola and Porno*. Let's summarize his credentials: a taxi driver by trade, but also a pool hustler and tireless seducer of attractive women, a drug dealer, the manager of a sauna run by mobsters, a sex addict, and an amateur porn actor who shoots low-budget films for the SickBoy website.

And while a terrifying hurricane threatens to devastate Scotland, Terry finds himself embroiled in a variety of adventures: he runs into a former lover at a funeral; he helps the simple-minded Wee Jonty search for his missing girlfriend, the beautiful Jinty Magdalen; He drives a young, suicidal playwright in his taxi; he's diagnosed with a heart condition that forces him to abstain from sex; and he works as a chauffeur for an American named Ronald Checker, a wealthy property developer and host of a hit reality show (yes, the character has obvious parallels with Donald Trump) who has come to Scotland in search of an extremely exclusive and expensive whisky...

A proper fuck is pure Welsh: uninhibited, scatological, pornographic, psychedelic, iconoclastic, slangy, and hilarious. Readers who aren't afraid of strong emotions will encounter scenes of incest, rape, and necrophilia, and even a couple of unheard-of chapters shaped like penises!