Book description
The cult bestseller that launched Jake Arnott as one of the most exciting new voices of the decade - 'A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it's set' (Independent on Sunday)
'I'll tell you what happens now,' Harry says, reading my mind.…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Long Firm as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is an obvious follow-on from my first choice, a gritty fictionalised version of the kind of world the Kray Brothers moved in. It features the gangster Harry Starks, who is both a porn king and a sociology graduate, and has one of those great openings that grips you from the start:
"You know the song, don’t you?" “There’s no business like show business.” Harry gets the Ethel Merman intonation just right as he heats up a poker in the gas burner.
How can you not read on, albeit a little nervously?
From Mike's list on crime set in London.
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