James Craig. (2011). London Calling. Soho Press.

James Craig. 2011. London Calling. Soho Press.

James Craig, London Calling. Soho Press, 2011.

James Craig. London Calling. Soho Press, 2011.

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     James Craig has worked as a journalist and TV producer. Born in Scotland, he has lived and worked in London for thirty years.
     
     

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In the middle of a General Election, someone is targeting former members of hte ultra-exclusive Merrion Club, youthful hedonists addicted to excess transformed into pillars of the political establishment. Next in the killer's sights is charismatic, ruthless Edgar Carlton, the man poised to be the next Prime Minister. But, with power almost in his grasp, Edgar will not stand idly by while his birthright is threatened.
When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey thorugh the murky world of the British ruling classes which leads all the way to the top. Operating in a world where right and wrong don't exist and the pursuit of power is everything, Carlyle has to find the killer before Carlton's people take the matter into their own hands.

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     "In this hard-bitten political thriller, the author skillfully portrays Carlyle as a good cop who genuinely struggles with the problems of his job and his lifestyle. Mr. Craig, a former journalist, writes with brutal candor about crimes as vicious as crimes can get.... It says something about the author's capacity for the darkest of humor when his description of a corpse superglued to a car can evoke a chuckle from the reader as police try to detach the body."

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   • source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
   • content: "As the title of James Craig's London Calling suggests, The Clash should be the soundtrack for this close to pitch-perfect debut introducing Inspector John Carlyle."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "Craig lards his familiar tale of revenge served cold with enough expository detail for a primer on politics and enough personal background about his hero to insure that his debut mystery won't be his last."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "So addictive you won't be able to tear yourself away."
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   • source: Gumshoe Reviews
   • content: "James Craig's gutsy, envelope-pushing debut, London Calling, dares to distinguish itself from the rest of the crime drama genre. It is a carefully crafted blend of horror and police procedural that is quite macabre and spellbinding."
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     August 8, 2011
     A tired plot line hobbles journalist Craig’s debut, the first in a police procedural series featuring Metropolitan Police Insp. John Carlyle. Britain is on the verge of elevating the so-called Golden Twins—brothers Edgar and Xavier Carlton—to the highest positions in the land as prime minister and foreign secretary, respectively, in the upcoming general election. Their induction is imperiled by Carlyle’s murder inquiry into the death of consultant Ian Blake, found in a hotel room with a knife sticking out of his backside. Carlyle soon traces a connection between the dead man and the Carltons via their membership in “an ultra-exclusive Cambridge University fraternity famous in equal measure for its hard drinking and bad behaviour,” and learns that another member was killed in a similar manner before Blake. Once that link is uncovered, there are few surprises as Carlyle races the clock to catch the murderer before the Carltons become victims as well.

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     September 15, 2011
     

     A series of grisly murders spells trouble for the orderly transfer of power in a pivotal British General Election.

     Edgar Carlton and his twin Xavier are so rich, so handsome and so media-savvy that they've been dubbed the Golden Twins. Edgar, leader of the opposition in Parliament, is a shoo-in to be the next Prime Minister, with Xavier as his Foreign Secretary. But their royal road to coronation gets a rude jolt when someone begins carving up alumni of the 1984 Merrion Club, an exclusive Cambridge society. Now the brothers, once leading lights, are in imminent danger of both getting killed and, even worse, attracting the glare of publicity. This delicate case falls to bull-headed Inspector John Carlyle, whose repeated refusal to follow the police line and protect his undeserving fellow officers, duly documented in a series of gratuitous flashbacks, has made him an outlier distrusted by his boss, Supt. Carole Simpson, whose financier husband is in bed with the Golden Twins. True to form, Carlyle doesn't exactly shine as a detective. But together with his sergeant, Joe Szyszkowski, he dutifully makes the rounds, asking obligatory questions, working his way up the greasy pole and increasingly getting stonewalled by practiced liars while he waits for inspiration to strike. At length it does, allowing an appropriately jaundiced conclusion.

     Journalist/TV producer Craig lards his familiar tale of revenge served cold with enough expository detail for a primer on politics and enough personal background about his hero to insure that his debut mystery won't be his last.

      

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     October 1, 2011
     

     A serial killer with a sadistic sexual style of new proportions rocks London insiders--but there's a muzzle on the publicity because the victims are all powerful leaders in British politics, including the potential new prime minister. Quickly, we can see someone is enacting systematic revenge for a collegiate incident that goes back to 1980s Cambridge. Inspector Carlyle, the maverick cop who has inherited this thankless case, and his partner, Joe Szyszkowski, must work quickly and outside the box if they hope to snare the killer. Or could there be more than one? This is familiar territory: the upper classes are bestowed with the most clout. Can an honest cop make a bit of difference? VERDICT Craig's provocative debut is not for the queasy, but it's so addictive you won't be able to tear yourself away. Readers will appreciate the nod to The Clash and the author's weary gaze at the troubled 1980s with its contrasting smugness and street violence.

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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