Book description
Leeds, 1940: a city on fire. On the night of the Luftwaffe's
fiercest bombardment, Captain Abraham Matthews has finally caught up
with Albie Crowe, the champion of a gang of petty thieves and
professional plunderers who he has been intent on snaring these past
six months. Holed up in a brick air-raid shelter at the scrub end of
Woodhouse Moor, Abraham and Albie wait for the sirens to end and
justice to come. But word is out that Abraham has, at last, ensnared
Albie Crowe. Even as the sirens wail, a gang of Albie's loyal boys are
picking their way across the city to rescue their leader and fell his
captor. It's down to Captain Abraham Matthews, then. All he has to do
is ferry his charge three miles across the city to reach the station
at the end of Meanwood Road. Along the way, there will be ruptured
roads and columns of fire, killers will lurk in the shadows, secrets
long buried will be unearthed and the dark history between the two men
will finally unfold. It's going to be one hell of a night.
Robert Dinsdale was born in North Yorkshire in 1981 and studied
in Leeds. He now lives and works in London. The Harrowing - the first
in a loose trilogy of novels set in Leeds - was published in 2009.
