Jake Arnott Livres

Alors qu'à Londres les Swinging Sixties battent leur plein et que les Anglais célèbrent leur victoire à la Coupe du monde de football, un drame bouleverse le royaume plusieurs policiers sont abattus de sang-froid. Autour de ces meurtres, trois hommes vont définitivement lier leur destin : Frank, un inspecteur ambitieux qui navigue en eaux troubles, Tony, journaliste pour la presse à scandales et Billy Porter, une petite frappe prise dans l'engrenage de la violence. Mixée par Jake Arnott, cette danse macabre donne un polar fiévreux à l'atmosphère sociale étouffante.

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.

Jake Arnott's 'mesmerizing, brilliant' (New York Times Book Review) second novel, a literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state. schovat popis

It's 30 years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt.

It is London and the year 1972. A charismatic anarchist called O'Connell dies of an overdose, leaving his artist boyfriend, Pearson, and fellow activist Nina in shock. It also leaves a spare room in their squat. So Pearson moves in Sweet Thing, a streetwise yet vulnerable young rent boy he initially picks up but then tries to help. Pearson isn't the only one who's interested though - glam rock star Johnny Chrome is on the brink of a breakdown and is convinced that Sweet Thing is the only one who can bring him back. As Sweet Thing gets drawn further into Johnny Chrome's dangerous orbit, Pearson and Nina discover that O'Connell was not all he seemed. In this tautly paced, highly evocative novel Jake Arnott once again combines brilliant storytelling with a flawless portrait of a changing era, when the optimism of the 60s was giving way to the anger and bombs of the early 70s.