Imprint
- Sceptre
- Hodder & Stoughton
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
London. The Swinging Sixties. Welcome to our manor
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.
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Praise for The Long Firm
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I simply could put it down, couldn't stop until I'd finished it. It tooke me right back to the times and brought back the fear - the real cold fear - of the period - Terry O'Neill, 60s photographer
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Gripping ... slumming it doesn t get much better than this - Time Out
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Jake Arnott has created a gangster story every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it is set, an English original as sharp and lethal as a Savile Row lapel - Independent on Sunday
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the book stood apart by virtue of its intelligent probing of the gap between gangster pose and live reality, its refusal to glamorise and its cool dissections of class and masculine vulnerability. - Time Out London
Jake Arnott
Jake Arnott was born in 1961, and lives in London. He is the author of THE LONG FIRM, published by Sceptre in 1999 and subsequently made into an acclaimed BBC TV series. His second novel, HE KILLS COPPERS, was also made into a series by Channel 4. He has since published the novels TRUECRIME, JOHNNY COME HOME, THE DEVIL'S PAINTBRUSH and THE HOUSE OF RUMOUR.
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