Ben Gaunt Releases New London Crime Thriller, “South of the River: Running On Empty”
London Crime Works, announces the latest addition to its crime library “South of the River: Running On Empty” by Ben Gaunt. It is a contemporary urban crime thriller that is fast-paced and tough, with uncompromising dialogue and dark humour.
(PRWEB) April 29, 2005 -- London Crime Works, announces the latest addition
to its crime library “South of the River: Running On Empty” by Ben Gaunt. It is
a contemporary urban crime thriller that is fast-paced and tough, with
uncompromising dialogue and dark humour.
“I was born, raised, and still
live in South London. Over the years I have had friends and been in situations
on both sides of the law. This leaves me uniquely qualified to write about crime
in the area that even the newspapers can’t report on,” states Ben
Gaunt.
London Crime Works is independent publishing house for crime
thrillers about London and its people. Unlike other publishers they aim to
provide an authentic voice for crime writing for the Capital although the
stories will have national and international appeal.
“Before signing with
London Crime Works I received numerous rejection slips from other publishing
companies because they felt that my stories were unrealistic.”
“They just
could not comprehend that fact really is stranger than fiction. For instance, to
me, there is nothing strange about two East End thugs taking a third on a bungee
jumping trip to Blackfriars Bridge. It still doesn’t surprise me that the trip
takes place in the early hours and the bungee cord is not attached to the ankle
but to the neck of the “jumper”” continues Gaunt.
“South of the River:
Running On Empty” true to its name and people, is set in the south London
boroughs that border the Thames and the City of London itself.
The
characters and situations are as diverse as the cultures that create
contemporary street-life - the habits, customs and languauge, spoken and
unspoken. If it is anything it is authentic.
South of the river can be a
difficult and dangerous place to get into in more ways than one – just ask a
taxi driver to take you there at three-forty seven in the morning! It can be
unforgiving!
The London river’s got taste. There are things that even it
wouldn’t swallow. Instead it spat it out at low water onto that level stretch of
gravel and mud, hard by the Lambeth Embankment.
‘Ain’t whitey. Look at
the skin. Blue. Blue...grey...black. Black man. Dead black man. Blood. He’s
blood.’
‘Betcha won’t look at his face.’
They put the sticks under
the body, and heaved, and levered it over. The face … there was no face … there
never is when the exit wound punches out that amount of bone and
cartilage.
Invalided out of the army, ex-Platoon Sergeant Aidan Neary is
a man increasingly at odds with the world, the more so when five hundred kilos
of choice Colombian cocaine, destined for the streets of south London, goes
missing. Guilty by association, for Neary it becomes a descent into a
contemporary London underworld of fight clubs and women’s boxing, night time
‘ghost singers’ and new casinos, sweaty old men’s gyms and asceptic fitness
centres, new London and old ‘Yard’. And foolishly, or otherwise, there seem to
be just too many characters who simply want to get in his way in finding out the
truth, or otherwise, of the drug shipment that never was!
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information please go to: http://www.LondonCrimeWorks.com or email e-mail protected from
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