The Last Days of Johnny Nunn

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'Completely immersive... a terrific book' Ann Cleeves

'This is that rarest of things, a thriller with a social conscience' The Times

Career campaigner Fraser Neal continually clashed with local businessmen, most recently over the councils selling publicly-owned social housing in the Docklands to private developers and displacing vulnerable residents. Until hes found dead in an alley behind Tennessee Fried Chickens wheelie bins. Neal was also a police informant " or so he said. DS Max Lomax of Special Operations says he wasnt. No one believes him.

Maxs reluctant inquiries into Frasers murder take him through the rundown estates, church soup kitchens and graffitied shopfronts of southeast London. Hes unaware that his investigation is linked to Johnny Nunn, a former boxer living on the streets, who has given everything to the search for his missing daughter. For five years Johnny has been consumed by a vision of finding his girl and bringing her home, but now he allows himself to be drawn into another familys tragedy.

Johnny knows the only beaten man is the one whos stopped fighting.

The killers may not.

Reviews

'Mesmerising'

'Like a darker, grimier version of Mick Herron's Slough House novels'

Author Bio

Nick Triplow is the author of the south London crime novel Frank's Wild Years and the social history books The Women They Left Behind, Distant Water and Pattie Slappers. His acclaimed short story, Face Value, was a winner in the 2015 Northern Crime competition. Originally from London, now living in Barton upon Humber, Nick studied English and Creative Writing at Middlesex University and, in 2007, earned a distinction at Sheffield Hallam University's MA in Creative Writing. Since completing his biography of British noir pioneer, Ted Lewis, Nick has been working on new fiction.