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A fascinating quest for one of London's legendary characters

About the Author

Keiron Pim is aged 38, married with three young daughters and lives in Norwich, where he was for a decade the literary editor of the Eastern Daily Press newspaper before leaving to concentrate on writing books. He is the author of The Bumper Book of Dinosaurs (Square Peg) and he edited and introduced Into the Light- the Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich, the first translated edition of England's only major medieval Hebrew poet.

Reviews

You’ll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won’t be able to stop.
*Guardian, Book of the Year*

The rock'n'roll legend of David Litvinoff is given its definitive account. A considerable work of detection and human sympathy unpicking old myths and making them new.
*Iain Sinclair*

This surely has the most startling beginning of any biography to be published this year… Vivid, engrossing… Pim gives an all too graphic picture of the seedy 1950s… He is compassionate and humane at every moment. His prose is always careful and stylish.
*Guardian*

Blending pop culture, social history and interviews with raddled survivors, Pim reconstructs every scene in Litvinoff’s twisted history… Jumpin’ Jack Flash provides the missing piece of Swinging London’s social jigsaw.
*Literary Review*

Blending pop culture, social history and interviews with raddled survivors, Pim reconstructs every scene in Litvinoff’s twisted history… Jumpin’ Jack Flash provides the missing piece of Swinging London’s social jigsaw.
*Literary Review*

Fascinating biography… Pim has a thorough knowledge of his subject and his milieu and is painstaking in his research… Against the odds, Keiron Pim has written a very good book about a very bad man.
*Times Literary Supplement*

A captivating and prodigiously well-researched account of that legendary 1960s London sub-world where criminality and bohemianism met head-on.
*D. J. Taylor*

Pim’s account of this extraordinary character is a magisterial work of scholarship.
*New Statesman*

Revelatory... The impressive list of character references in this extraordinary book gives some indication of just how singular a creature [David Litvinoff] was, and the mind-boggling diversity of the worlds in which he moved.
*Daily Telegraph*

Keiron Pim has grafted long and hard to separate the facts from the heady fictions… Pim does a great job of bringing the era and some of its most colourful characters to life.
*Independent*