Truecrime - Softcover

Arnott, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340818565 ISBN 13: 9780340818565

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Canada, 2003

Synopsis

Arnott, Jake. Truecrime. First Edition. London, Sceptre, 2003. Octavo. 338 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist, author of The Long Firm and four other novels. He identifies as bisexual. However, in 2005 Arnott was ranked one of Britain's 100 most influential gay and lesbian people. It was declared that 'he is widely regarded as one of Britain's most promising novelists, quite regardless of sexuality'. Arnott was born in Buckinghamshire. Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at 17, he had various jobs including labourer, mortuary technician, artist's model, theatrical agency assistant, actor with the Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and appeared as a mummy in the film The Mummy. He came out as bisexual in his twenties. His sister, Deborah Arnott, is Chief Executive of the campaigning charity Action on Smoking and Health, ASH. (Wikipedia).

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About the Author

Jake Arnott has been all the mandatory things required to qualify for authorship. He has been a laborer, mortuary technician, theatrical agent's assistant, artist's model, actor, sign language interpreter, and brain surgeon. He is the author of the British bestsellers He Kills Coppers and The Long Firm, both available from Soho Press. He lives in London, England.

From Publishers Weekly

Talk about antiheroes: the three narrators of this novel of London's gritty underworld are set on murder, revenge and larceny. Tony Meehan is a washed-up crime journalist currently ghosting the memoir of Eddie Doyle, "[j]ewel thief, bank robber, known associate of most of the major gangland faces," who's just out of prison after serving time for his role in a heist of £15 million in gold, most of which was never recovered. Julie McClusky, the daughter of a murdered gangster, has become a middle-class actress—but she's also searching for her father's killer under the guise of working on her boyfriend's movie about London criminals. Shady businessman Gary "Gaz" Kelly has always modeled himself on "[v]illains and gangsters. The Kray Twins. Harry Starks. Flash bastards. Legends." Unlike the Kray Twins, Harry Starks is Abbott's creation (last seen in 2001's Long Firm); he's the supposed mastermind of the bullion theft, the possible key to the whereabouts of the gold and Julia's number one suspect. When Starks is spotted at Ronnie Kray's funeral, the search for him begins in earnest, and that search, as well as the crimes uncovered in its wake and committed during its progress, dominate the rest of the book. Arnott's plotting is intricate and his prose hard-edged, made more so by his atmospheric use of Cockney and slang and his close-up look at frightening but human villains.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Canada
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0340818565
• ISBN 13: 9780340818565
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1