by JohnBaker (Author)
What with tracking her husband's killer for the woman from Scottish Widows, and investigating the death of a teenage runaway, Sam Turner has enough on his plate. Without a mentally defective King Kong lookalike trashing his office and trying to throw him in the river, car and all. And he could certainly do without Frank Taylor, a bad-news gang boss from Manchester with some very nasty habits and even nastier tastes...'John Baker brings heart, invention and wit to the business of adapting the tough-guy novel to the realities of contemporary Britain ...King of the Streets will depress the local tourist board but bring cheer to crime and mystery readers' Ian Ousby, Independent on Sunday
Format: Paperback
Pages: 274
Edition: 2
Publisher: Orion
Published: 10 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 0575402849
ISBN 13: 9780575402843
Book Overview: The Sam Turner mysteries, of which this is the third, have made John Baker a highly acclaimed new crime writer Reissued with a stylish new cover treatment behind the latest Sam Turner paperback, WALKING WITH GHOSTS, and with the two other backlist titles A major title on the Indigo re-launch list Author is a director of the Crime Writers Association Praise for KING OF THE STREETS 'If I was going to compare him with anyone, I'd say he was to private sector crime solving what John Harvey is to the police procedural. Yeah, he's that good.' Calum Mcleod, Shots 'Steeped in the hard-boiled genre of Chandler and Elroy. Brilliant.' Peterborough Evening Telegraph