August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and consequences that reverberate across three decades. An ambitious detective dragged into intrigues of corruption. A gutter press journalist with a nose for a nasty story. And a disaffected petty criminal pushed over the edge by a violent crime that haunts him. An epic story that looks at morality and corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.

He Kills Coppers

Literature & Fiction

Jake Arnott

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton

The LONG FIRM

The Long Firm

A debut novel set in London in the 'swinging sixties' in which five narrators chart the rise, fall, and eventual escape of Harry Starks - club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan.

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

'Whenever Jake Arnott's got a new book out, I drop everything knowing that the next couple of hours are going to be pure gangland bliss.' DAVID BOWIE\nRanging from the Swinging Sixties to the Raving Nineties and with a cast that includes Machiavellian gangsters, politicians, bent coppers, actresses and gutter journalists, Jake Arnott's classic trilogy is at once sharply funny, relentlessly compelling, and frighteningly real.\nTHE LONG FIRM is the cult bestseller that launched Jake Arnott as one of the most exciting new voices of the 'A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it's set' (Independent on Sunday)\nHE KILLS COPPERS is a 'mesmerizing, brilliant' ( New York Times Book Review ) literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state.\nTRUECRIME is a blistering take on Cool Britannia and London's underbelly in the 1990s, and 'the most expansive, ironical and funny novel of the series' ( Daily Telegraph)

The Long Firm Trilogy

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Sceptre

The Devil's Paintbrush

1st edition Sceptre 2010 trade paperback vg++ condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The House of Rumour

Paperback with light wear, clean, bright, outer edge pages are yellowed, and solidly bound content.

August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself.  Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and consequences that reverberate across three decades.  An ambitious detective dragged into intrigues of corruption.  A gutter press journalist with a nose for a nasty story.  And a disaffected petty criminal pushed over the edge by a violent crime that haunts him. An epic story that looks at morality and corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.

Mixing the invented and the real, The House of Rumour explores World War II spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming), occultism (Aleister Crowley), the West Coast science-fiction set (Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip K. Dick all appear), and the new-wave music scene of the 1980s. The decades-spanning, labyrinthine plot also weaves in the Jonestown massacre and Rudolf Hess, UFO sightings and B movies. Told in a variety of narrative voices, what at first appears to be a constellation of random events begins to cohere as the work of a shadow organization—or is it just coincidence?Tying the strands together is Larry Zagorski, an early pulp-fiction writer-turned-U.S. airman-turned-“American gnostic,” who looks back on his long and eventful life, searching for connections between the seemingly disparate parts. The teeming network of interlaced secrets he uncovers has personal relevance—it mirrors a book of twenty-two interconnected stories he once wrote, inspired by the major arcana cards in the tarot.Hailed by the Guardian as an heir to Don DeLillo’s Underworld, The House of Rumour is a tour de force that sweeps the listener through a century’s worth of secret histories.

House of Rumour, The

Literary

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He Kills Coppers

The Long Firm

The Long Firm

The Long Firm Trilogy

The Devil's Paintbrush

The Devil's Paintbrush

The House of Rumour

The Devil's Paintbrush

He Kills Coppers

House of Rumour, The