Book description
A fifteen-year-old boy firebombs a building as he listens to Vivaldi's
Winter Concerto splicing behind a red hot R 'n' B track. A veteran
musician is found dead in an alley with the pulse of an old time reggae
classic playing in his pocket. Rap sensation Lord Tribulation discovers
his new found stardom threatened when he finds himself in the middle of
both incidents. His music is accused of inciting the firebombing, and
the dead musician is his father. With the beat of the media and
government blasting down his neck, LT's search for the truth about his
father's death takes him back to an old flame, and on a retro trail to
1976. A time when music was politics and politics was music. A time when
the heat-drenched streets of Notting Hill burst into open rebellion. A
time that, as LT gets closer to the truth, could lead straight to his
own murder . . .
'As good as it gets . . . Mitchell is English fiction's brightest new voice'
Dreda Say Mitchell was born in London's East End in 1965. She has
worked as an education consultant and a teacher in both primary and
secondary schools. She has a degree in African history from the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a MA in
education studies. Her first novel, RUNNING HOT, was published in 2004
by the Maia Press and won the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey
Memorial Dagger Award for best first novel. She loves to travel, with
her hot feet taking her as far a field as Cambodia and Laos to the
Lebanon and Ethiopia. She especially loves to relax in Grenada where her
family are from. She continues to live in east London with her partner,
Tony.
