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The Long Firm TrilogySeries

This series plunges into the heart of swinging 1960s London, revealing the grimy underbelly beneath the city's glamorous facade. Follow the lives of characters navigating the criminal underworld, from club owners to kingpins, each striving for legitimacy amidst a world of violence and seduction. The narratives expertly weave thrilling crime plots with vivid sociological and topographical portraits of a city in transition.

He Kills Coppers
Truecrime
The Long Firm

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    The Long Firm

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.9(1504)Add rating

    London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry's business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners on, performing menace while trying to desperately trying to jump the counter into legitimacy. Five characters tell five tales that combine in an extraordinary narrative that is both an explosively paced thriller and brilliantly imagined sociological and topographical portrait of sixties London.

    The Long Firm
  2. 2

    He Kills Coppers

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.7(677)Add rating

    Jake Arnott's 'mesmerizing, brilliant' (New York Times Book Review) second novel, a literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state. schovat popis

    He Kills Coppers
  3. 3

    Truecrime

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.6(62)Add rating

    It's 30 years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt.

    Truecrime