Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at the New Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving the NME was when he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here. Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. The Slaughter Man was also a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Tony Lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan.
This is Parson's best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent for sensing the zeitgeist. Daily Mail If you haven't already become a fan, the third outing for Max Wolfe is the perfect introduction to the London underworld that Tony Parsons has so vividly created. While expertly playing with the classic tropes of the detective genre, Parsons folds in live-streamed vigilante justice and a social media campaign to bring back the death penalty - meaning Wolfe's cases couldn't feel more of-the-minute GQ I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing and I'm really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff. Peter James Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic. Lee Child Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing. Daily Mail