Swear Down by Russ Litten
A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate - but two people confess to the murder. Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force, believes the more obvious of the two confessions: from McKenzie, a teenager from the estate with a police record of juvenile crime. But why does Jack Shepherdson - an ex-merchant seaman in his sixties - come forward with his own confession? Is he covering for McKenzie, his colleague in the bar they worked at? Or is there more truth in his statement than Ndekwe at first believes? As we listen, with Ndekwe, to their stories - to the lives of the segregated and unheard - a heartbreaking and suspenseful story emerges.
Compelling and utterly convincing - this is real life, not just a crime novel -- Jake Arnott
Russ Litten has taken guidance and lessons from the great modern Americans - Richard Price, Elmore Leonard - and the concrete walkways and stairwells and gaols and dives of this septic isle and has written a gripping, magnificently paced book that, for four days, accompanied me from bar to bench to bath to bedIt is superb. -- Niall Griffiths
A gritty urban crime thriller ... Litten invests craft and energy in establishing the individual voices .. it's easy to imagine Swear Down being successfully adapted for television -- Ben Felsenburg * Metro *
A thrilling and sometimes darkly comic look at lives lived on the margins -- Nick Quantrill * Hull Daily Mail *
Subtle, moving and disturbing * Guardian *
Russ Litten has taken guidance and lessons from the great modern Americans - Richard Price, Elmore Leonard - and the concrete walkways and stairwells and gaols and dives of this septic isle and has written a gripping, magnificently paced book that, for four days, accompanied me from bar to bench to bath to bedIt is superb. -- Niall Griffiths
A gritty urban crime thriller ... Litten invests craft and energy in establishing the individual voices .. it's easy to imagine Swear Down being successfully adapted for television -- Ben Felsenburg * Metro *
A thrilling and sometimes darkly comic look at lives lived on the margins -- Nick Quantrill * Hull Daily Mail *
Subtle, moving and disturbing * Guardian *
Russ Litten has written drama for television, radio and Hollywood film. He currently works as a writer in prisons and lives with his family in Kingston Upon Hull.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906994419 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906994412 |
| Title | Swear Down |
| Author | Russ Litten |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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