The Long Firm

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.

About the author

Jake Arnott, geb. 1961, lebt in London.

Report

'The Long Firm is more than an addition to the genre: it is both knowing, in a literary sense, and entertaining, and makes profitable use of its influences. Gracefully written, diligently and rewardingly researched, it is both exciting and funny. It takes the cliches of the genre and makes them sexy and freshly interesting'
Observer

Product details

• Authors: Jake Arnott
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2000
• EAN: 9780340767283
• ISBN: 978-0-340-76728-3
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 178 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Sceptre Paperbacks; Sceptre Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage