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Reap the Whirlwind

And Other Stories

Mark Timlin

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English
Crime & Mystery Club Ltd
15 April 2021
A recently-discovered, long-lost novel and short stories from the 90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman.

Follow Sharman as he patrols his seedily glamorous South London beat, with its cast of villains, eccentrics, misfits and losers. A magnet for trouble, even when he is on holiday in the country, he has a habit of inadvertently ending up on the wrong side of the law and at the wrong end of a shotgun. In this high-risk world, people are seldom what they seem and nothing can be taken for granted. 

'The king of the British hard-boiled thriller.' - Times

'The mean streets of South London need their heroes tough. Private eye Nick Sharman fits the bill.' - The Telegraph

'Hard-boiled story-telling with attitude.' - Daily Mail

'It is possible that South London contains some law abiding citizens in conventional relationships but they make no appearance in Timlin's immoral, wildly enjoyable books.' - Times

'A pure pulp vision closer to Spillane than Chandler. The Sharman books are bloody romances of the South London badlands.' - John Williams

'Nick Sharman is like black coffee at 4 o'clock in the morning: very black, very bitter.' - Derek Raymond 
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Imprint:   Crime & Mystery Club Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780857303790
ISBN 10:   0857303791
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

In over twenty years as an author, Mark Timlin has written some thirty novels under many different names, including best selling books as Lee Martin, innumerable short stories, an anthology and numerous articles on diverse subjects for various newspapers and magazines.

Reviews for Reap the Whirlwind: And Other Stories

'Few have come close to visualising the true blackness at the heart of crime - but Mark Timlin is one of them' - Sunday Sport 'Intriguing stories deftly delivered, deliciously playful use of language, bags of energy, wry humour and plenty of hard edges... a real treat for hardboiled crime fans' - NB Magazine 'Sardonic. Sharp as the smell of cordite and slick as fresh oil on a nickel-plated Colt automatic - think Philip Marlowe in the opening paragraph of The Big Sleep' - South Wales Argus 'The whole thing moves with pace, verve and wit; 170 pages of hi-energy pared-down prose, laced with episodes of explosive action' - Crime Time 'Timlin adds a damned fine story to augment the dry wit' - Shots Mag


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