Trevor Mark Thomas

Full review here - http://annabookbel.net/an-almost-old-fashioned-modern-gangster-novel . If you like Magnus MIll's dark comedies about men and their work, you'll appreciate Thomas's debut novel, in which a chap goes to an isolated pub on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border to lay low. Tom has to muck in with ageing gangster Frank's gang there who are doing some work for Yorkshire gangster Wayne. Plenty of rivalry between the gangsters, plenty of sitting around in a grotty pub doing nothing, plenty of action once the others find out the price on Tom's head. Full of details that bring the men, the girl, the pub, the location all to life, told with dark humour, I loved this book.… (mais)