City of Tiny Lights - Softcover

Neate, Patrick

3.61

513 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594481865 ISBN 13: 9781594481864

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2006

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Cricket aficionado, devoted son, part-time private investigator and occasional idol to West London's thug-ites, Tommy Akhtar is hired by a lovely prostitute to uncover the whereabouts of a missing friend, last seen meeting a client at a local hangout, but his case takes a dark turn when he becomes embroiled in a sinister murder investigation. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Patrick Neate lives in London. His nonfiction book, Where You're At, received the 2004 NBCC Award. He is also the author of three acclaimed novels, and in 2001 he won England's prestigious Whitbread Novel Award.

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*Starred Review* Neate (Where You're At, 2004), whose previous books have been diverse, sprawling, and sometimes award winning, turns to crime. Tommy Akhtar is a Ugandan Indian private eye with a fondness for Wild Turkey and Benson & Hedges and an absolute mania for cricket. Oh, and he was also a mujahideen in Afghanistan. When a brassy hooker hires him to find her missing flatmate, Akhtar soon learns his mission is about far more than bad debt between working girls: the MI5 and CIA are working the same case, too. Neate has overwhelmed some readers with his torrential narrative, but here, in the service of a tightly plotted mystery/thriller, the ebullience of his writing lifts readers like a storm surge that carries them off the beach and right back to their beds. Akhtar is one-of-a-kind, his voice a rollicking blend of erudite thought delivered in delightfully crude slang. Political digressions are blunt but well informed and rich with irony. And a plot thread involving a terrorist threat in London has startling relevance after the events of last July. Neate waggishly calls this "Another Tommy Akhtar Investigation" (it's the first we've seen); let's hope he makes good on that promise. Keir Graff
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