Nine Mil

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Ed Behr is a man trapped in a nightmare. As a kid, he and his crew played some rough games. But one game involving concrete blocks and a bridge over the freeway resulted in tragedy - and an early introduction to the living hell known as the Penal Correction System. Years later, Ed scrapes a living as a taxi driver, his youthful dreams gone, his one obsession to find the girlfriend he lost all those years ago. Then one day Ed gets a fare with a familiar face, a face he remembers from long ago. Billy, the one who got away. Suddenly Ed can see a way of redeeming his life, of getting revenge. It s time to play the game one more time...

Reviews

Fast, violent and a breathless delight - GUARDIAN

This novel has got ''brilliant'' written through it like a stick of rock. Rob Ryan's second novel just supports my reaction to his first that here we have a superb crime writer... This is a book not to be missed, half-way between THE SOPRANOS and a John Woo movie - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Ryan invokes the spirits of Sinatra and Eliot Ness in another high-calibre rush through American gun culture that's nigh-on untouchable - GQ

This thriller is a well-paced tale of honour among thieves... Stylish, high-octane stuff, and not for the faint-hearted - ESQUIRE

A second masterly thriller from the author of UNDERDOGS - TIME OUT

Wildly inventive, impressively tense and it has that hard to define quality of weight that most British noir seems to lack - TIME OUT

Author Bio

Rob Ryan has published articles in The Face, Arena and the Sunday Times. In 1997 he left to help launch Conde Nast Traveller. Now a freelance writer, he lives with his wife and three children.