Sam Dean Thriller #03: Point of Darkness

Sam Dean Thriller #03: Point of Darkness
Mike Phillips
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
29 Sep 2022 UK
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9780008542078
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Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend' s message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture, looking forward to reconnecting with family and old friends. But his relaxing holiday turns dark when Mary disappears, and Sammy is caught up in a world of murder, sex, and corrupt politics that threatens to turn his world upside down. Melded with social commentary around race, class and gentrification, Point of Darkness is a gripping thriller, still eerily relevant.

#01: Blood Rights
#02: Late Candidate, The
#03: Point of Darkness
#04: An Image to Die For

Praise for Mike Phillips ' This is Mike Phillips' s best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic' The Times' Phillips delivers his seamy tale with an enviably warm spareness of effect' Sunday Times' An incisive study of immigrant experience wrapped up in a gripping thriller' Times Literary Supplement' The Best British thriller in years. . . A novel that seems to have been written for a purpose; it deals with the black British community as something other than a problem or a political cliche' Marie Claire' Could have come from the pen of the master, Raymond Chandler' TodayA thriller which maintains pace and provides excitements rooted in reality . . . a winner' Guardian' There' s much here to suggest that Phillips could be one of our bravest, most incisive social commentators' Mail on SundayPhillips' depictions of urban London share more with Harlem and Los Angeles than the English drawing rooms of P. D. James and Ruth Rendell' Financial Times' Phillips. . . gives a mean streetwise documentary edge to his hero' s hunt for a witness' Sunday Express' Mr Phillips writes in a precise uncluttered style that suits the detective novel' s ritualistic form. But it is the sensibility of his hero - a black man - that lends freshness to the form itself' The New York Times Book Review' As a political thriller it has something to say about multi-cultural Britain that is both revealing and intelligent . . . a good novel, deftly handled and deserving of praise' Time Out
Mike Phillips was born in Guyana, came to Britain as a child and grew up in London. A journalist, broadcaster and university lecturer before becoming a full time writer, his series of crime fiction novels began with ' Blood Rights' (1989), adapted for BBC television, and his reputation as a historian was established with ' Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain' (1998). Mike writes for the Guardian, and works as Cross Cultural curator at Tate Britain.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008542078
Published: 29 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 384

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