Review
`The complexities of dealing with Britain's gangs as investigated by Gavin Knight, who spent two years with anti-gang units in London, Manchester and Glasgow in order to write his gripping new book, Hood Rat' --Esquire
`Journalist Gavin Knight spent two years embedded with undercover police to tell these three very different stories of real-life street crime . . . fast-paced, gripping and visceral' --Metro
`A rollicking tale'
--Big Issue in the North
'Gavin Knight's Hood Rat is an unflinching account of life and death in the sink estates of Britain. It penetrates environments that most of us only glimpse in local news reports, and addresses the kind of people that we fear encountering on a dark night or, indeed, a bright afternoon.' --Observer
'In its approach and style, Gavin Knight's Hood Rat follows the New Journalism that revolutionised the form in the 1960s. . . This book is not only a disturbing, significant portrait of the present, but a snapshot of Britain's future if this trend continues to escalate . . . The pace of Hood Rat is spurred on by Knights economy of detail and staccato sentences, which thankfully avoid the slang and colloquialisms found on the lips of those he encounters. His experience crosses two worlds: he does no report simply on the gangs, but also on those entrusted with the powers for bring about justice and change.'
--Literary Review
`Journalist Gavin Knight spent two years embedded with undercover police to tell these three very different stories of real-life street crime . . . fast-paced, gripping and visceral' --Metro
`A rollicking tale'
--Big Issue in the North
'Gavin Knight's Hood Rat is an unflinching account of life and death in the sink estates of Britain. It penetrates environments that most of us only glimpse in local news reports, and addresses the kind of people that we fear encountering on a dark night or, indeed, a bright afternoon.' --Observer
'In its approach and style, Gavin Knight's Hood Rat follows the New Journalism that revolutionised the form in the 1960s. . . This book is not only a disturbing, significant portrait of the present, but a snapshot of Britain's future if this trend continues to escalate . . . The pace of Hood Rat is spurred on by Knights economy of detail and staccato sentences, which thankfully avoid the slang and colloquialisms found on the lips of those he encounters. His experience crosses two worlds: he does no report simply on the gangs, but also on those entrusted with the powers for bring about justice and change.'
--Literary Review
Product Description
Researched on the front line and told like a thriller, a unique and groundbreaking exploration of Britain’s hidden ganglands.
Book Description
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 hidded urban underworld. Untold, till now.
About the Author
Gavin Knight has written for the Guardian, Newsweek, Esquire, The Times and Prospect. Hood Rat is his first book.
