Saturday's Child by Ray Banks is set in working class Manchester and Bank's does a pretty good job at immersing the reader in culture. He has a good observational eye and a nice turn of phrase. Some of my favourite lines from the first hundred pages or so:"The way the story goes, Morris Tiernan once had a bad debt slit from arsehole to appetite"
"The girl looks like she has covered her face in glue and headbutted a bag full of ball bearings."
"A working class hero is something to be. But then six bullets, point blank, and not one of them hit Yuko."
"I'm your Dad, but I wouldn't trust you as far as I could shit you, son."
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Great stuff. The Call Innes books are all gems. I think you'll like them.
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