King of the streets - John Baker

What with tracking her husband?s killer for the woman from Scottish Widows, and investigating the death of a teenage runaway, Sam Turner has enough on his plate.

Without a mentally defective King Kong lookalike trashing his office and trying to throw him in the river, car and all.

And he could certainly do without Frank Taylor, a bad-news gang boss from Manchester with some very nasty habits and even nastier tastes. . .

?John Baker brings heart, invention and wit to the business of adapting the tough-guy novel to the realities of contemporary Britain . . . King of the Streets will depress the local tourist board but bring cheer to crime and mystery readers?
Ian Ousby, Independent on Sunday