Hood Rat

by Gavin Knight (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $3.40

  BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

  SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012

  SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION DAGGER AWARD

  `THE MOST IMPORTANT CRIME STORY OF THE DECADE'

  Scottish Mail

  Manchester. London. Glasgow.

  In the summer of 2011 violence erupted in our inner cities and many blamed gang culture. But is the truth so simple?

  Hood Rat tells the human stories that the media miss: of young men who have fallen through the system, and of one young woman with a vision for change.

  `Unflinching. It penetrates environments that most of us only ever glimpse' Observer

  `Impressive. Knight uncovers the sort of stories that never make the news' Scotsman

  `This British sensation is a must. Disturbingly compelling' Marie Claire

  `A gripping novelistic immersion in the lives of young criminals' Louis Theroux

  `The British Wire' BBC Radio 5 Live

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $3.40

  In Manchester, Anders Svensson is on the trail of drug baron Merlin and his lieutenant Flow, a man so dangerous his type is said to appear only once in a decade. In Glasgow, faced with the highest murder rate in Europe, Karen McCluskey is on a one-woman mission to end gang warfare. In London, Pilgrim finds he's no longer feared. Troll, the child soldier, is terrorizing the streets. This is our hidden urban underworld - untold, till now.

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $18.88

  BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

  SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012

  SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION DAGGER AWARD

  `THE MOST IMPORTANT CRIME STORY OF THE DECADE'

  Scottish Mail

  Manchester. London. Glasgow.

  In the summer of 2011 violence erupted in our inner cities and many blamed gang culture. But is the truth so simple?

  Hood Rat tells the human stories that the media miss: of young men who have fallen through the system, and of one young woman with a vision for change.

  `Unflinching. It penetrates environments that most of us only ever glimpse' Observer

  `Impressive. Knight uncovers the sort of stories that never make the news' Scotsman

  `This British sensation is a must. Disturbingly compelling' Marie Claire

  `A gripping novelistic immersion in the lives of young criminals' Louis Theroux

  `The British Wire' BBC Radio 5 Live