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Armed robber Frank Newton is looking for one last big haul to set up his retirement. When Frank discovers that he's just turned over crime boss Billy Parker, his retirement cruise looks set to be a quick sea trip attached to a concrete boot. But then Parker makes him an offer he literally cannot refuse. All Frank and his gang of ageing mobsters have to do is take down 'Papa' Ernie Codling, a vicious Yardie gangleader who is challenging Parker's rule. Caught between the two most violent gangs on the manor and with a vengeful police officer on his trail, Frank has to try and buck impossible odds just to stay alive.Hutson, the bad boy of British thriller writers, serves up his twenty-first novel - and a lacklustre affair it is. Perhaps, like his protagonists, Huston is suffering a mid-life crisis because this offering displays none of the verve, energy or downright twisted imaginings of his earlier works such as Assassin or Spawn. Never the most subtle of writers, Huston's saving grace has always been his over the top enthusiasm for his work, but here he uses cliches like blunt instruments in an attempt to stun the reader into acceptance of a strictly 'by the numbers' gangland caper novel. The cast is too large and too bland to make any striking impression; maudlin sentimentality replaces motivation and mindless violence, culminating in the predictable but pointless bloodbath finale, is used to pad out a plot that is wafer thin. Any time a deeper, more meaningful issue is touched upon, such as Frank and his wife's desperate need to have a child, it is swept aside in favour of excessive and guilt-free bloodletting. If you are not already a Hutson fan, this will not convert you. However, if all you want is lots of bad language and masses of gratuitous and lovingly-detailed violence, this is the book for you. (Kirkus UK)
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Small-time crook Frank Newton pulls off a robbery that will give him financial independence - but half of it belongs to a London gang boss who knows who he is. In return for his life, he must eliminate a new Yardie chief while evading a tenacious police team.
Armed robber Frank Newton is looking for one last big haul to set up his retirement. When Frank discovers that he's just turned over crime boss Billy Parker, his retirement cruise looks set to be a quick sea trip attached to a concrete boot. But then Parker makes him an offer he literally cannot refuse. All Frank and his gang of ageing mobsters have to do is take down 'Papa' Ernie Codling, a vicious Yardie gangleader who is challenging Parker's rule. Caught between the two most violent gangs on the manor and with a vengeful police officer on his trail, Frank has to try and buck impossible odds just to stay alive.Hutson, the bad boy of British thriller writers, serves up his twenty-first novel - and a lacklustre affair it is. Perhaps, like his protagonists, Huston is suffering a mid-life crisis because this offering displays none of the verve, energy or downright twisted imaginings of his earlier works such as Assassin or Spawn. Never the most subtle of writers, Huston's saving grace has always been his over the top enthusiasm for his work, but here he uses cliches like blunt instruments in an attempt to stun the reader into acceptance of a strictly 'by the numbers' gangland caper novel. The cast is too large and too bland to make any striking impression; maudlin sentimentality replaces motivation and mindless violence, culminating in the predictable but pointless bloodbath finale, is used to pad out a plot that is wafer thin. Any time a deeper, more meaningful issue is touched upon, such as Frank and his wife's desperate need to have a child, it is swept aside in favour of excessive and guilt-free bloodletting. If you are not already a Hutson fan, this will not convert you. However, if all you want is lots of bad language and masses of gratuitous and lovingly-detailed violence, this is the book for you. (Kirkus UK)
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Small-time crook Frank Newton pulls off a robbery that will give him financial independence - but half of it belongs to a London gang boss who knows who he is. In return for his life, he must eliminate a new Yardie chief while evading a tenacious police team.
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