Book description
THEN: Once upon a time in south London, three young men without a
future decide to invent their own. The Sixties are starting to swing
and Jimmy, John and Billy want it all: the clothes, the pills, the
music and the women. Through drugs, protection and armed robbery, they
start building their crime empire; everything they've always dreamed
about is within their grasp. But then Billy changes sides and becomes
a cop...and finds that his days are numbered. NOW: Billy's son, Mark,
is working for John Jenner and waiting for the day when his father's
killer gets out of prison. It's any time now and Mark is determined to
be there when the doors swing open. An epic novel spanning forty years
of love, life and villainy, Guns of Brixton is a major tour de force
from an author at the peak of his powers.
Mark Timlin is the author of the Nick Sharman PI novels, which were
made as feature films for ITV, starring Clive Owen. Mark wrote his first
novel in 1988 and since then had written more than 30, in various genres
and under assorted names. Known as the 'bad boy of crime fiction', Mark
has now become a major critical voice through a regular column in 'The
Independent on Sunday'.
