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    The Dead

    Written by Howard Linskey

    Narrated by David Nellist

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    Life is sweet for David Blake until his accountant is arrested for murder. The money man is set for a life sentence until he puts five million pounds out of Blake's reach. Now Blake faces a choice; fix the acquittal of a child killer or lose out on the cash. Meanwhile, Serbian gangsters are taking over his territory and his girlfriend is asking awkward questions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJul 3, 2014
    ISBN9781471270376
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    Howard Linskey

    Howard Linskey’s other acclaimed thrillers include The Drop, also available from Witness Impulse.

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    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this book it had me gripped...Starts with a girls dead body then takes you along a winding story.Very good Plot. Gritty Gangster read with really good characters was gripped from the first page. Would Recommend this to crime/gangster readers as I was impressed.
    • 4/5
      Howard Linskey's third novel takes us on a white knuckle ride through a very modern criminal underworld, where the forces of darkness tread a wafer thin line on both sides of the law.Newcastle provides the gritty backdrop for this powerful story as David Blake finds his lucrative position as crime lord under threat from a bewildering variety of sources. When his bent accountant is arrested for the most heinous of crimes, Blake must make a supremely difficult choice while facing down vicious Serbian mobsters and an insane Russian oligarch who threaten to end a virtual monopoly of organised crime.Throw into the mix a satisfying dollop of police corruption, a partner with some very difficult questions about her father's death and a ghost from Blake's dim and distant past, and you have a molotov cocktail of a novel that simply refuses to relinquish its grasp.Be assured this is a hard-hitting novel with all the expletives and carnage one would associate with true heavyweights of the criminal fraternity, but the violent acts are often left to the imagination, rather than gratuitously described accounts of sundry blood-letting: the mark of a true craftsman, as the end result packs an ever stronger punch.Given a a reasonably faithful reproduction of its source, there is no good reason why The Dead cannot follow in the great tradition of big screen crime thrillers populated by the likes of The Long Good Friday and Jonathan Glazer's remarkable Sexy Beast.This is a real diamond of a novel, and deserves your most immediate attention.
    • 4/5
      The Dead - Howard LinskeyI found this to be a competent piece of writing within its genre. The author was unknown to me so once again I am indebted to Real Readers for the introduction to Mr.Linskey.Whilst well written, the characters were drawn with economy, their purpose and function clear within the narrative, I constantly felt that I had either read, or seen these situations many times before in books, films or TV dramas. I suppose even organised crime has a finite number of methods of operation!! That didn’t stop me enjoying the book but I never felt there was any new ground covered. The one surprise that I hadn’t figured out was the paternity issue. I should have seen it coming as Jinky was in complete contrast to David.I suppose what always gets me is how a criminal such as Blake, guilty of causing death, acquiring large amounts of money dishonestly and perverting the course of justice rides off into the sunset virtually unscathed. It is a morally incompetent message, crime shouldn't pay but here it does seem to. I know it’s just a story but I would have preferred to see him behind bars.