Summary
Meet Bane. Meet his beautiful mistress, teenage son, and the violent underworld to which he’s increasingly numbed.
Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award
It’s Manchester, at the close of the millennium, and Henry Bane is now manager of an exclusive nightclub. He has a beautiful mistress, a teenage son, and is making moves in a violent underworld to which he is increasingly numbed.
When a young girl is found tortured and unwilling to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099584544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099584549 |
| Author: | Tom Benn |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Frenetic page-turning tension and mystery… Sometimes nasty, sometimes funny, sometimes knowing in its comment about the rampant misogyny that pervades the underworld. It’s a great read, dark and filled with pace. – Nikesh Shukla * We Love This Book *Seamy, tough and reeking with authenticity, it’s grimly fascinating. – Deirdre O’Brien * Sunday Mirror *Ultra-noir… depicts the criminal underbelly of Manchester with force and style. Good story, superior characterisation, convincingly bleak atmosphere. – Marcel Berlins * The Times *Exhilarating prose, gut-wrenching violence and plenty of soul in dystopian Manchester. – Cath StaincliffeIt shines a light on Manchester’s violent underworld, as a nightclub owner finds himself dragged into ever-more-depraved places amid a backdrop of murders. * Mr Hyde *An extremely well-paced piece of writing. * Bookmunch *This is gritty stuff… Benn’s prose is fat-free, sinewy, not a wasted syllable. * UK Press Syndication *Manchester’s Irvine Welsh… Authentic but grim. – Natasha Harding * Sun *Benn transcends genre… [Trouble Man] is powerful fare. * Good Book Guide *
About The Author
Tom Benn
Tom Benn was born in 1987, and grew up in Stockport. He is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and was the recipient of the 2009 Malcolm Bradbury bursary. His first novel, The Doll Princess, was shortlisted for the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey Dagger. Chamber Music was published in 2013.
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