Jake Arnott

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear.Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes first book, originally published in 1945.

Londres en los años 60. Música pop, drogas, crimen y libertad sexual. Este es el escenario de la vida de Harry Stark, gángster maniaco depresivo, amante del buen comer, de los trajes hechos a medida y de un buen numero de jovencitos serviles. Nadie que conozca a Stark se puede mantener indiferente al aura de violencia contenida que parece impregnar todo lo que hace. No pudo, al menos, ninguno de los cinco personajes que desgranaran su vida. Esta novela es la primera parte de una aclamada trilogia, que se completa con Canciones de sangre y Crimenes de pelicula.

A mind-bending, thrilling journey into 20th-century history and outer space - a brightly coloured portrait of our times that is alternatively intimate and epic . . . brilliant (Independent on Sunday).

The cult bestseller that launched Jake Arnott as one of the most exciting new voices of the decade - A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which its set (Independe

A fascinating, unusual and seductive historical novel by the bestselling author of The Long Firm.

It''s 1995, and crime is the new cool. Actress Julie wants none of it as she comes to terms with her hidden criminal roots. But her public-school boyfriend is going all mockney and writing the script of his ''classic British gangster movie''. Meanwhile, ''Geezer'' Gaz, wannabe villain, is losing control as he preys on the Essex rave scene. And 60s gang boss Harry Starks is back to haunt them all... New lads meet old lags, celebrity villains mix with media types and Cool Britannia is stripped bare in Jake Arnott''s devilishly wicked new novel. Welcome to Cruel Britannia.

It''s 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O''Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny Chrome; and in the wings lurks Detective Sergeant Walker of the newly formed Bomb Squad, who knows more about O''Connell than anyone ever suspected. The course of all their lives is about to change forever for better and for worse. In this taut, powerful novel, Jake Arnott portrays four people searching for a sense of identity, their emotional and sexual turmoil mirrored by the turbulence of the times. Bringing that era vividly to life, he captures the mood of Britain at a turning point in history.

A sensuous, vivid and unsettling modern gothic tale about a couple who move to the seaside town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist over whom the shadow of former town resident Aleister Crowley looms large. Ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley or Francine Toon.Exhausted by the pressures of life in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings. With Adams failed career as an artist and a recent miscarriage causing rifts in their marriage, Justine wants this to be a fresh start for them. As they try to settle into their new seaside home, they find a bolted door in their basement, behind which is a cave. Adam feels a strange but enchanting pull to the cave while apprehension begins to claw at Justine.Inside the cave, they find a witch bottle and with this discovery, the couple begin to uncover disturbing rumours about the homes previous owner, John Malachy. A sinister figure, Malachy was known for his obsession with chaos magic, and association with Sacred Disease - a band that rose to fame in the 80s that supposedly experimented with blood magic and occult forces and was made a scapegoat in the media due to their association with satanism. Justine and Adam seek answers from James Blackwood, a local occultist and former member of Sacred Disease. He warns them to leave things be and not to tamper with ancient rituals, dark magic and secrets long buried in the past. But John Malachy is long dead and surely everything the media said about him was only superstition?Despite Blackwoods warning, Adam cant resist opening the witch bottle. With this, a sinister chain of events begins to unfold. Justine notices that Adams behaviour changes and the obsession he once had with his art is reignited but begins to veer into something unnatural. Justine herself wakes night after night, haunted by the screams of a young woman that seem to come from the cave beneath the house.When Justine once again finds herself pregnant, and people in the town begin to turn up dead or missing, the lines between truth, reality and the mystical all begin to blur. The ghosts of John Malachy and the one and only Aleister Crowley himself loom large and a dark sacrificial reckoning closes in on both Justine and Adam.

Corren los años noventa y el crimen es el último grito en Londres. El periodista Tony Meehan ha logrado controlar sus tendencias homicidas y malvive redactando las autobiografías de otros. Julie McClusky lleva toda la vida intentando alejarse de su herencia familiar criminal. Ir a ver Pulp Fiction con su novio parece un plan inofensivo hasta que este se empeña en escribir la historia definitiva sobre los gansteres londinenses. Sus indagaciones suponen para Julie la oportunidad de averiguar de una vez por todas quien encargo la muerte de su mafioso padre años atras. Mientras tanto, Gaz, un delincuente de poca monta, pero con vision de futuro, acaba de salir de la carcel. Con su instinto habitual para el dinero facil descubre en seguida que el negocio esta en la venta de pastillas de diseño a jovencitos. Durante una rave muere una chica y empiezan las complicaciones. Aunque no lo parezca, sus vidas estan estrechamente vinculadas a un hombre: Harry Starks. Con Crimenes de pelicula, Jake Arnott concluye magistralmente su trilogia dedicada al submundo gansteril de Londres de finales del siglo pasado.

Frank Taylor, un novato ambicioso y con tendencia a la corrupción, y Dave Thomas, un detective honrado, forman parte del dispositivo policial especial encargado de limpiar el West End londinense de buscavidas, estafadores y chicas faciles durante el Campeonato del Mundo de Futbol de 1966. Durante un control rutinario algo se tuerce, y Frank recurre a sus superiores para que lo destinen a el y a su compañero a otra operacion, a una mas segura. Poco despues, el brutal asesinato de tres policias conmociona a la opinion publica inglesa. Dave es uno de los policias asesinados, y Frank no puede dejar de pensar que su muerte es una tragedia provocada por el mismo. Sin embargo, para Billy Porter, autor material de los hechos, todo forma parte de un plan que salio horriblemente mal, lo cual supone el comienzo de una rocambolesca huida que pondra en jaque a la policia. Pero para un joven periodista del Sunday Illustrated, el crimen es el golpe de suerte que estaba esperando y un revulsivo a toda una serie de instintos siniestros a los que es incapaz de resistirse. Ambiciones personales, bajos instintos y acciones desesperadas se entretejen magistralmente en la segunda novela de Jake Arnott.