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Written with compelling authenticity - much of it based on first-hand experience - Moss Side Massive takes the reader into the heart of a world where the gun is God and respect' means fast money or a quick death.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510124093713,"sku":"GOR001664439","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49657796198673,"sku":"GOR002922097","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50916172726545,"sku":"GOR001206592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1874509093.jpg?v=1751218486"},{"product_id":"full-crew-book-karline-smith-9781902934174","title":"Full Crew","description":"In the long-awaited sequel to Karline Smith's highly acclaimed best-selling debut novel, soon to be made into a feature film, she picks up right where she left off. Bad boy Easy-Love Brown's New Year's wish is to conquer Manchester's gangster underworld after wasting time doing time. But time has brought him new enemies, and as Grandma says, if you want to swim in the river, first you have to kill the crocodiles. The tuffest new novel to come out of the dark side of the city.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665634894097,"sku":"GOR006150980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1902934172.jpg?v=1751123636"},{"product_id":"moss-side-massive-book-karline-smith-9781684540143","title":"Moss Side Massive","description":"In this powerhouse first novel, Karline Smith graphically portrays the harsh realities of life on the mean streets of Manchester's Moss Side district where baby-faced drug dealers ply their trade on mountain bikes whilst gun shots shatter the night air, in the 1990s.Long before the mandem there was posses, and crews. This book is a step back in time into a do or die world. This book is now a cult crime classic.The side of Manchester people never get to see...wicked stuff - Victor Headley, author of best-selling Jamaican gangster novel YARDIEA rare glimpse into a world in which the women are hopelessly patient and the men little more than demanding children obsessed with their toys is grimly exotic and extremely readable.  - Times Literary SupplementKarline Smith is an author that is certainly going places. - The Voice NewspaperThis book is a jewel. A time-piece that captures an era, revisited through its pages. Pulsating with tension, Moss Side Massive is peppered with historical moments. Music, streets, clubs, street language, gang-grooming and culture, generational conflict, despondency and at that time, hopelessness. Fantastic. - City Life Magazine****Manchester 1994. When a gang leader is shot dead and killed in broad daylight, his brother strongly suspects that an opposing gang-leader, Storm Michaels, is responsible. Storm lives a double life., leader of the Grange Close gang, and his mother's, Queenie) doting son, with a good job as jewelry sales representative, and can do no wrong. Just when he is about to give up the gang life to concentrate on his son and daughter, and conflicts with his women, he finds himself divided concerning his loyalties. In the midst of this is Storm's mother Queenie, who came to England and settled in the area, in the early seventies, following her husband Vermont. After the marriage deteriorates. Queenie is forced to bring up two sons alone in the area, with no idea one of her sons is notorious gang-leader and that her life is under threat. In the dark Winter that follows, the war between the two feuding gangs, Pier Mill Massive and the Grange Close crew steps up. Two Generals fighting for control of one army, for control of the streets, the clubs, and even the local black businesses, claiming a stake (taxing) of profits and of course vengeance.By the time Storm realizes that his family is under threat it is almost too late. His younger brother, up-and-coming sound system engineer eighteen-year-old Zukie, becomes the main focus of the Piper Mill's craving-for-revenge and unstable new leader, Jigsy. A brother for a brother, a life for a life.we go around in the night and are consumed by fire***","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49879582900497,"sku":"GOR012527653","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51105696022801,"sku":"NIN9781684540143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1684540143.jpg?v=1750961611"},{"product_id":"full-crew-book-karline-smith-9781684540136","title":"Full Crew","description":"Released from prison bad boy Easy-Love Brown is out ready to reclaim Manchester's gangster crown after wasting time doing time, time has brought him new enemies but as grandma says, if you want to swim in the river, first you have to kill the crocodiles. Seventeen-year-old Danny Boy Ranks leader of the Worlders Crew has a vile mouth and a temper to match and he doesn't believe no man riding on his grind. Ranks' ambition is to out Easy's light while avoiding clashing with Yardie godmother, leader of the Dodge Crew, Miss Small who wants to be reunited with the son she abandoned as a baby and give up the hustle. Easy figures that if he can manipulate Miss Small, he can take over her crew because as grandma always says, strength comes in numbers.Realising that he too, has to increase numbers, it doesn't take long for Danny to work out that ex-gang leader, Storm Michaels is hiding the truth from his brother Zukie who is suffering from memory loss after a car crash and doesn't remember that Storm caused the death of his best friend in a payback gone wrong. Storm has given up the gun for good, no longer in a gang, but Danny believes that once a street soldier always a street soldier, blackmailing Storm to get him to eradicate Easy. Storm, Zukie, Ranks and Easy-Love, find they have unresolved issues and challenges from the past and present to face in the sequel to the best-selling novel, Moss Side Massive, from the UK's first first black female crime writer. A terrific read and insight into Manchester's gang underworld - Manchester Evening News","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49879582867729,"sku":"GOR010294306","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53110018310417,"sku":"NIN9781684540136","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1684540135.jpg?v=1751120985"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-karline-smith.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}