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PUBLISHER: Headline Publishing Group

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780755342501

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 384

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 6, 2009

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If it Bleeds

Duncan Campbell

A brilliant novel about contemporary London gangland crime by the hugely well reviewed author of THE PARADISE TRAIL. Britain’s best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as his reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion. Who has killed the last of the London Godfathers? Could it be a Russian businessman with a love of Scottish poetry and something dodgy in his Hampstead garden?

Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell is a senior correspondent with the Guardian, where he has worked as the paper’s crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent. He has written five non-fiction books. He has previously worked for Time Out and contributed to OZ, IT and The Rising Nepal. He is married to Oscar-winning actress Julie Christie.

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