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Praise for Mike Phillips This is Mike Phillipss best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic The Times



Phillips delivers his seamy tale with an enviably warm spareness of effect Sunday Times



An incisive study of immigrant experience wrapped up in a gripping thriller Times Literary Supplement



The Best British thriller in years A novel that seems to have been written for a purpose; it deals with the black British community as something other than a problem or a political cliché Marie Claire



Could have come from the pen of the master, Raymond Chandler Today



A thriller which maintains pace and provides excitements rooted in reality a winner Guardian



Theres much here to suggest that Phillips could be one of our bravest, most incisive social commentators Mail on Sunday



Phillips depictions of urban London share more with Harlem and Los Angeles than the English drawing rooms of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell Financial Times



Phillips gives a mean streetwise documentary edge to his heros hunt for a witness Sunday Express



Mr Phillips writes in a precise uncluttered style that suits the detective novels ritualistic form. But it is the sensibility of his hero a black man that lends freshness to the form itself The New York Times Book Review



As a political thriller it has something to say about multi-cultural Britain that is both revealing and intelligent a good novel, deftly handled and deserving of praise Time Out