A BOWDON novelist who has dodged more of life's bullets than Bonnie and Clyde believes he has found the antidote to sexual attraction for men.

Malcolm Storer, is hoping that his new book The Cure, which is a black comedy about a heartbroken playboy who discovers a potion to remove his desire for women, will open up a new avenue for some fascinating debate and fun.

"The novel explores the reasons behind men's devotion to women - why they worship them and why they go to extraordinary lengths to sleep with them - and how Mother Nature does her utmost to keep them hooked, imagining a world where sex is no longer the currency," says Malcolm.

Born just a short distance from where Clockwork Orange novelist Anthony Burgess was raised in North Manchester, a young Malcolm moved with his family to Lymm, where after leaving school took up music in between working as a hospital porter at Trafford General Hospital.

In 1990, after ditching life as a professional musician in Cheshire for a open ended trip to Rio de Janeiro, where the adventurous Malcolm lived in a favela, was almost being kidnapped by gangsters and drank in a bar with Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs.

"Ronnie was a bit of a celebrity in his own right, so the only way to get to speak with him was to buy him a drink! He was telling me how much he missed Britain and how he struggled with living in Brazil."

On Malcolm's return to the UK he moved to Bowdon as he decided to get serious about his writing. His persistence paid off with his first novel, the Wilmslow Comet, about a hapless local newspaper journalist, which one critic described as: "The funniest, wittiest, most entertaining read you'll have this year or even, perhaps, this decade. Quite simply, The Wilmslow Comet knocks anything by Tom Sharpe or David Lodge into a cocked hat."

These days Malcolm is based in Wilmslow and describes himself, not just as a novelist, but also as a screenwriter and ghost-writer having done the latter for many Cheshire celebrities, which in turn has helped him gain an insight into the world of sex and glamour.

He admits his new novel is based on many of his experiences in Brazil and visiting in the rain forest In describing his novel, he adds: "It's arrived, the drug, men have been waiting for. The drug that will finally set them free. Free from the world's ultimate temptation - women!" The novel will be available on Amazon by going to the following link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cure-Malcolm-Storer/dp/1530875986/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1460038068&sr=8-2&keywords=the+cure+by+malcolm+storer