A new author to me, and the start of a five book series.
Before I did a bit of research on the author I already knew I was going to find he had served as a Police Officer, and was not surprised to find he was an experienced Met Officer who had done two stints on Homicide.
You really can’t write a book that catches the essence of an investigation this well without having “earned the t-shirt”
When the leader of one of three gangs, struggling to take overall control of an area of London, decides to hire outsiders to hit a rivals operation, he only has one thing in mind.
Blaming another gang and a tarting a turf war between his rivals.
DCI Jack Tyler’s team are in the middle of the investigation, into the killing of three Turkish Gangsters when he becomes aware that the incident may be linked to an operation being run by his friend, Tony Dillon, in the Organised Crime Group.
To cap Tyler’s day off his ex-wife is caught in a Violent Steaming incident on a train.
The incidents are all linked by different gangs, and the individuals in the gangs.
The way Mark aroma in has written this makes it a real page turner.
The plot of the crimes, and the characters for each, overlap like a well planned Venn Diagram.
Tyler is undoubtedly the main character but Dillon, and several of the gang members are given almost equal time in the book, and the story unfolds with the reader getting an almost 360 degree insight into what is happening.
The politics, and democratic, of each gang is really well portrayed.
The thoughts, observations, and concerns of Tyler from the policing side, and the Meeks brothers from the gang side, are really well written and take the reader right into the heart of the story.
I loved the story, the characters and ten way it was written, the next book, Jacks Back, is already on my Kindle and has gone straight to the top of my to-be-read list
Print length: 674 pages.
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