Book description
Career campaigner Fraser Neal continually clashed with local businessmen, most recently over the council's selling publicly-owned social housing in the Docklands to private developers and displacing vulnerable residents. Until he's found dead in an alley behind Tennessee Fried Chicken's wheelie bins. Neal was also a police informant – or so…
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Dark as coal, the second DS Lomax novel takes us slightly back in time to 2011 and a vision of London just before the Olympics begins. Tackling what initially may feel like dry subjects – regeneration, dirty money, corruption and community – the character of Johnny Nunn, a former-boxer now living on the streets as they change around him, injects heart and compassion into the story. An angry novel, but one I loved because it’s brimming with heart and courage, too.
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