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TOOTH
& NAIL by John B Spencer
£7 1899344314
C-format (216mm x 135mm) paperback original
Spencer
offers yet another demonstration that our crime writers can hold their
own with the best of their American counterparts when it comes to snappy
dialogue and criminal energy.
When it comes
to property, Reggie Crystal and Terry Reece-Morgan have half of West London
carved up between them. But both men have problems: Reggie's is that he
likes to swing by the neck from light fittings, whilst Terry has a wife
in intensive care and cant wait to pull the plug. Darren Friend, self-made
psychopath and social-climber, is desperate to go play with the big boys,
but he has too many friends in low places and a high-class clean teamer
girlfriend who needs satisfying. Materially as well as physically, all
are set on a collision course from which nobody looks likely to walk away.
TOOTH & NAIL is a dark, Rackmanesque tale of avarice and malice-aforethought
from one of Britain's most exciting and accomplished writers.
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