The Long Firm
Published on 26. May 2011
352 pages
978-1-84894-656-9 (ISBN)
Description
London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry's business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners on, performing menace while trying to desperately trying to jump the counter into legitimacy. Five characters tell five tales that combine in an extraordinary narrative that is both an explosively paced thriller and brilliantly imagined sociological and topographical portrait of sixties London.
Reviews / Votes
Truly fascinating ... Arnott's ability to powerfully resurrect an era is astonishing * Jimmy Boyle, Guardian * One of the smartest, funniest and original novels you will read all year ... Arnott is quite brilliant at excavating the cultural minutiae of the time to bring the period vividly to life * Independent on Sunday * Compulsive reading, powerful writing with an evocative feel for the bleaker side of the Swinging Sixties * The Times * Gripping ... slumming it doesn't get much better than this * Time Out * Jake Arnott has created a gangster story every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it is set, an English original as sharp and lethal as a Saville Row lapel * Independent on Sunday * Pulp Fiction so polished as to be immaculate * New Statesman * The powerful, stylish writing hooks the reader from the first page. One of the most impressive first novels I've read in years. * Mail on Sunday *More details
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division (Digital)
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,73 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84894-656-9 (9781848946569)
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Jake Arnott was born in 1961, and lives in London. He is the author of THE LONG FIRM, published by Sceptre in 1999 and subsequently made into an acclaimed BBC TV series. His second novel, HE KILLS COPPERS, was also made into a series by Channel 4. He has since published the novels TRUECRIME, JOHNNY COME HOME, THE DEVIL'S PAINTBRUSH and THE HOUSE OF RUMOUR.
