"A novel that combines the pleasures of genre fiction and the thematic richness of literary fiction, while blurring the line between the two and exploding the very concept of genre."
An audaciously ambitious novel that takes great creative risks and, against considerable odds, makes most of them pay dividends.
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"Jim Thompson, James Ellroy—and Arnott in his first novel—have all done it better."
The London criminal underground that was such an ebullient presence in Arnott's terrific debut, The Long Firm (1999), is likewise the setting and subject of this ambitious but disappointing successor.
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British writer Arnott's ingeniously constructed first novel, set in the criminal world of London's West End and reminiscent of such recent films as The Long Good Friday and The Krays, is in fact already being made into a five-part BBC-TV miniseries.
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