Soho Press - The Long Firm by Jake Arnott

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A wonderfully unnerving take on the London Mafia in the swinging 1960s.

June 2001 | Fiction
$14 Paperback
ISBN: 1-56947-232-7
All rights: Gelfman Schneider

A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.

"A great read from start to finish." —The New York Times Book Review	"Truly fascinating." —Guardian
"Strikingly original . . . hypnotically entertaining . . . crime, crooks, and assorted crazies in 1960s London." —Boston Globe	"A down-and-dirty chronicle of a gay mobster." —The Advocate
"An anti-hero to die for." —USA Today	"Slumming doesn't get much better than this." —TimeOut (London)
"This is the real underground world . . . It is so realistic." —Elle	"Compulsive reading, powerful . . . It is the story of Harry Starks, a homosexual Jewish gangster making his mark on the West End." —The Times (London)

Harry Starks’ barbarity and élan stand out, even among the firms (or mobs) of London’s underworld in the sixties where he is a major hoodlum and gay impresario.

JAKE ARNOTT's bestseller has been adapted as a five-part BBC series. He is the author of two other novels in this series, He Kills Coppers and truecrime. He lives in London.

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