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"Tough, urban prose from an author with a sharp, distinctive style and an ear for the language of London's naughtier characters. Keenaghan's love for his city shines through in this driven, thumping novel. Cult fiction for the 2020s."
JOHN KING, author of The Football Factory and Human Punk

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This is my favorite crime fiction novel about London (that was written this century).

It is a fierce and gripping portrait of society’s criminal underbelly; London is Dead wields a cast of flawed but colourful characters as they cross paths and swords in the streets of the capital. A spine-tingling rip-roaring roller-coaster of a murderous read. 

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