Smiler with Knife

'Tough urban prose from an author with an ear for London's naughtier characters'

JOHN KING, author of THE FOOTBALL FACTORY.

'A talented new fiction writer who knows his craft. Don’t miss out.'
NOEL 'RAZOR' SMITH, author of A FEW KIND WORDS AND A LOADED GUN.

This powerful collection of stories takes you to London's drinking dens, backstreets and shadowy housing estates where coppers, criminals and the plain hard-done-by are faced with all life can throw at them...

A teenager is disillusioned when the friend he idolises is guilty of a sick, horrific crime - when they fall out he's forced to take part in his escapades. A moonlighting policeman is sent to blackmail a TV soap starlet; proceedings take a twist when she turns the tables and before long bullets are flying. A gangster dreaming of a world away from his domineering boss stabs a stranger in a street confrontation, an action with consequences more hellish than he could have imagined.

Brutal, uncompromising, at times blackly funny, SMILER WITH KNIFE is a gripping tour through the urban jungle and the shadier quarters of the human condition.