The books are about a multi-racial community in which loyalty to your mates is more important than following the rules of society. This is a community with very little hope of finding jobs, status and money: the traditional aims of society. Instead, the community has its own aims and its own ways of surviving. It has resilience, it has humour and it knows what a fast buck looks like. Some of its characters break the law, some don't; but they all know how life is.Brilliantly reviewed on its initial release in 1995, Vinnie Got Blown Away holds a unique place in the crime fiction canon, and is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of readers. It is now recognised as being one of the British crime novels that one has to read.The second and third novels in the series will be published by HopeRoad in 2015.
Jeremy Cameron spent several years working in hostels for the homeless and twenty years living and working in Walthamstow. During this period he wrote five novels set in Walthamstow and featuring Nicky Burkett
'Audacious and outrageous.' [Daily Telegraph]; 'Jaunty, exhilarating and original, with a feeling for street life that renders it sexy and poignant.'; [Literary Review]; 'A fast, funny trawl through the territory of London's new outlaw underclass. It is a masterly piece of storytelling.' [Financial Times]; 'A short, sharp shock of a novel.' [GQ]; 'Funny, violent and vivid. [Sunday Times]
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