Reap the Whirlwind: And Other Stories

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A recently-discovered, long-lost novel and short stories from the 90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman.

Follow Sharman as he patrols his seedily glamorous South London beat, with its cast of villains, eccentrics, misfits and losers. A magnet for trouble, even when he is on holiday in the country, he has a habit of inadvertently ending up on the wrong side of the law and at the wrong end of a shotgun. In this high-risk world, people are seldom what they seem and nothing can be taken for granted.

'The king of the British hard-boiled thriller.' Times

'The mean streets of South London need their heroes tough. Private eye Nick Sharman fits the bill.' The Telegraph

'Hard-boiled story-telling with attitude.' Daily Mail

'It is possible that South London contains some law abiding citizens in conventional relationships but they make no appearance in Timlin's immoral, wildly enjoyable books.' Times

'A pure pulp vision closer to Spillane than Chandler. The Sharman books are bloody romances of the South London badlands.' John Williams

'Nick Sharman is like black coffee at 4 o'clock in the morning: very black, very bitter.' Derek Raymond

Reviews

intriguing stories deftly delivered, deliciously playful use of language, bags of energy, wry humour and plenty of hard edges... a real treat for hardboiled crime fans -- Paul Burke * NB Magazine *
Timlin's brainchild continues to offer gritty, entertaining escapism -- AP * Buzz Magazine *
Timlin's talent for pithy, colloquial short stories was always underrated... Here again he demonstrates his craft and makes us realise how much we have missed Sharman -- Maxim Jakubowski * CrimeTime *
Sardonic. Sharp as the smell of cordite and slick as fresh oil on a nickel-plated Colt automatic - think Philip Marlowe in the opening paragraph of The Big Sleep * South Wales Argus *
The whole thing moves with pace, verve and wit; 170 pages of hi-energy pared-down prose, laced with episodes of explosive action -- Bob Cornwell * Crime Time *

Author Bio

In over twenty years as an author, Mark Timlin has written some thirty novels under many different names, including best selling books as Lee Martin, innumerable short stories, an anthology and numerous articles on diverse subjects for various newspapers and magazines.