--- product_id: 49547902 title: "Lowboy" price: "£29" currency: GIP in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://gibraltar.desertcart.com/products/49547902-lowboy store_origin: GI region: Gibraltar --- # Lowboy **Price:** £29 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lowboy - **How much does it cost?** £29 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [gibraltar.desertcart.com](https://gibraltar.desertcart.com/products/49547902-lowboy) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Underground, in the tunnels beneath New York, a young man is missing. Above ground, Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother is reluctant to help and Emily, his girlfriend and only confidante, appears to have vanished too. Can Lateef find Lowboy before it's too late? An extraordinary chronicle of a desperate young man and the race to find him, Lowboy is a modern masterpiece. Review: A thrilling, exhausting ride - The critical praise for Lowboy was so exalted I almost hesitated to buy the book; nothing could live up to that hype. But Lowboy just about does. The disintegrating point of view of the title character, aka Will Heller, is precise and sweeps you along. The entire book, in fact, is paced like an express train: fast, at times appearing to be controlled, at other times delivering unexpected jolts. It was only afterward that I questioned a few of the authorial choices, in particular concerning Will's mother. But the external and internal worlds of Will sucked me in to such a degree that even after I emerged, I still felt vaguely unsettled, as you do when climbing up the subway steps after an especially long trip to be smacked with the midday sun. All I can say is that I can't recommend Lowboy enough. Review: Compelling - To begin with I wasn't sure if I was enjoying this book, and enjoyment is probably not the word for a book like this anyway. It makes uncomfortable and yet fascinating reading. It draws you in and so before you know it you are compelled to carry on. John Wray has obviously researched his subject well, and he effectively puts you in the mind of Will Heller who suffers from schizophrenia. To do this cannot be an easy task, and it is exhausting to find yourself in such a disturbed frame of mind, unpeaceful and threatening. The mood of the book is menacing and somewhat horrifying and yet so sad too. The contrast of such a physically beautiful boy but with so much suffering and torment going on in his mind is well portrayed. You can understand Emily feeling she can help him because his beauty is so deceptive. Human nature is such that it always responds positively to beauty. You can comprehend her initial sympathetic collusion. Is everything as it seems, how much does his mother have to answer for? Where does illusion end and truth begin? Quite a powerful read. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 4,467,988 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 107,057 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) 142,297 in Literary Fiction (Books) 319,060 in Teen & Young Adult (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.6 out of 5 stars 70 Reviews | ## Images ![Lowboy - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71lRs3X+-qL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A thrilling, exhausting ride *by S***C on 6 August 2009* The critical praise for Lowboy was so exalted I almost hesitated to buy the book; nothing could live up to that hype. But Lowboy just about does. The disintegrating point of view of the title character, aka Will Heller, is precise and sweeps you along. The entire book, in fact, is paced like an express train: fast, at times appearing to be controlled, at other times delivering unexpected jolts. It was only afterward that I questioned a few of the authorial choices, in particular concerning Will's mother. But the external and internal worlds of Will sucked me in to such a degree that even after I emerged, I still felt vaguely unsettled, as you do when climbing up the subway steps after an especially long trip to be smacked with the midday sun. All I can say is that I can't recommend Lowboy enough. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Compelling *by P***L on 17 October 2010* To begin with I wasn't sure if I was enjoying this book, and enjoyment is probably not the word for a book like this anyway. It makes uncomfortable and yet fascinating reading. It draws you in and so before you know it you are compelled to carry on. John Wray has obviously researched his subject well, and he effectively puts you in the mind of Will Heller who suffers from schizophrenia. To do this cannot be an easy task, and it is exhausting to find yourself in such a disturbed frame of mind, unpeaceful and threatening. The mood of the book is menacing and somewhat horrifying and yet so sad too. The contrast of such a physically beautiful boy but with so much suffering and torment going on in his mind is well portrayed. You can understand Emily feeling she can help him because his beauty is so deceptive. Human nature is such that it always responds positively to beauty. You can comprehend her initial sympathetic collusion. Is everything as it seems, how much does his mother have to answer for? Where does illusion end and truth begin? Quite a powerful read. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Compelling and well written but other's have done it better *by J***E on 16 October 2010* William Heller, aka Lowboy, is on the run after breaking his conditions of release from Bellevue psychiatric hospital. He travels the subways and subterranean tunnels, off his medication and becoming increasingly psychotic as his paranoid schizophrenia takes over tipping the human need to find patterns in the chaotic into madness. Wray writes the novel from two points of view, Lowboy's increasingly disturbed perspective and that of Detective Ali Lateef, searching for Lowboy with his mother Yda, aka Violet, their tale too becoming unspooled as Lateef reflects on his altered identity, name changed when his father converted to Islam, and that of Yda. Very good, but I prefer Tabitha Suzuma's trilogy about a teenage boy with manic depression. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://gibraltar.desertcart.com/products/49547902-lowboy](https://gibraltar.desertcart.com/products/49547902-lowboy) --- *Product available on Desertcart Gibraltar* *Store origin: GI* *Last updated: 2026-09-07*