Review
John Harvey is the perfect editor for this highly impressive anthology. As the creator of the excellent Charlie Resnik detective novels, Harvey has demonstrated his mastery of the genre, and the authors he has assembled here reads like a virtual who's who of the best in current crime wring. Old hands such as Reginald Hill (creator of Dalziel and Pascoe) jostle shoulders with new cutting-edge talent such as Mark Billingham and Dennis Lehane. The brief that Harvey gave his contributors was tripartite: what it means to be a father, a son -- or a man. The seventeen ace practitioners of the art of mayhem tackle these serious themes in the context of crime writing, with locales as wide apart as urban London and the battlefields of the First World War. The tales vary in intensity and levels of achievement, but there isn't an entry here that doesn't hit the mark. (Kirkus UK)
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An anthology of coming of ages stories written from a masculine perspective, this collection includes writing by Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, Bill Moody, Daniel Woodrell among many well-known authors. It also includes a novella by Andrew Coburn.
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