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WILLIAM SHAW - The Kings Of London , in hardback , First Edition / Impression published in the USA by Mulholland Books in 2015 .

This book is signed and lined by the author - I met William at the Harrogate Crime Festival .

By the author of A Song From Dead Lips and Deadland - this is the second book in the Breen and Tozer series , and was released as A House Of Knives in the UK .

" The Black Sheep

" The wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspicious circumstances .

" The Honest Detective

" DS Cathal Breen dodges political embargo and death threats to pursue the case .

" The Rolling Stone

" Notorious art dealer Robert Fraser may provide the only clue - if only he will talk .

" And as Breen slips deeper into London's underground of hippies and heroin , he edges nearer to the secrets of those at the very top . Banished from a corrupt and fracturing system , he will finally be forced to fight fire with fire . "

About William Shaw

William Shaw is the author of several non-fiction books including Westsiders : Stories of the Boys in the Hood , about a year spent with the young men of South Central Los Angeles , and A Superhero For Hire , a compilation of columns in the Observer Magazine . A Song from Dead Lips is the first in a trilogy of crime fiction books set in London in 1968-1969 .

Starting out as assistant editor of the post-punk magazine ZigZag , he has been a journalist for The Observer , The New York Times , Wired , Arena and The Face and was Amazon UK Music Journalist of the Year in 2003 .

Very good condition - some very slight creasing , and a small tear , to the dust jacket - a nice copy .

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