If It Bleeds
By (Author) Duncan Campbell
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
1st November 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
252g
Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as his reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion. Who has killed the last of the London Godfathers Could it be a Russian businessman with a love of Scottish poetry and something dodgy in his Hampstead garden
Duncan Campbell is a senior correspondent with the Guardian, where he has worked as the paper's crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent. He has written five non-fiction books. He has previously worked for Time Out and contributed to OZ, IT and The Rising Nepal. He is married to Oscar-winning actress Julie Christie.