Spectres in the Smoke: A Creeping Narrative Review

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(More customer reviews)This book explores a time and place not well covered in popular fiction - Britain just following the Second World War. The struggle with Germany had left this country destitute and exhausted, yet life went on. The Labor government tried to be all things to all people with little resources and the protagonist is dragooned into the dark corners of how this society must muddle on through. I have no idea if the details of London criminal society are at all authentic, but they seem so. The politics and economics are right in line with what history tells us. The characters are sympathetic and nuanced, motivations complex but sometimes noble. Violence is shown as ocasional but brutal and tension relieved at times by sardonic humor. Over all an engaging look at time usually out of our collective memory.

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