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Waterstones in Hull are extremely supportive of Hull
& East Riding writers, and carry a stock of many of the books mentioned on this site.
Danny Birch
Danny Birch is the author of the very successful 'Clipped'
which quite possibly presages a whole new style of writing relevant to the Facebook and Twitter generation, wrapping
an exciting and compelling thriller within a text which upholds the rigour of storytelling while paying scant regard
to the arcane formalities of grammar and syntax.
Danny is just finishing off a new novel (no title yet) which we will certainly be reading as soon as it becomes available.
'Clipped'
In this tale perched pacily between Elmore Leonard’s Florida, USA, and a Quentin Tarantino version of Kingston-Upon-Hull, UK (currently the setting for a lot of good new crime fiction), two brothers plot a harmless robbery to net 200,000 and pay a few bills, which they carry out pitch-perfectly.
Unfortunately, their hit brings them to the attention of Hans Diezan, Hull crime boss and an obsessive killer who has terrorised Bosnia, serial hit for the Mafia, and probably had some US extraordinary rendition top-up training, given his penchant for keeping his victims on life-support while he tortures them into extra-extra time.
Diezan has a plan of his own – to recruit some kamikazes on a dead-if-you-do-dead-if-you-don’t mission to wrap up a drugs turf war with Turkish insurgents, and Alex and Sonny look to be just the right sort of saps to succumb to his persuasive ways.
This is a book which speeds you along compulsively, dips you into the deepest stench of organized crime, buries you in stomach-churning details you would rather not know about, and is definitely not one to give your auntie for Christmas, especially if she is a stickler for grammar, syntax, spelling or punctuation which is sprayed around with more splatter than bullets from an AK45.
Great read – slick writing – careful and loving characterisation, even for the walk-on parts - raw atmospherics - scripted for the cinema with a rocking 80s sound track. Tarantino, heads up! (TR). |
