Title: "...The Future of British Crime Fiction?"
Review: Alas, the West Riding has fallen on evil days since Heathcliff hastened cross the moors. In David Peace's 1974, the police are stupid and sadistic, the politicians cunning and corrupt, the business leaders perverse and sociopathic and the entire population hindered by the inability to express itself in anything more eloquent than a four letter word. Whatever happened to character growth and development? These people start out unsavory and unlikeable and simply intensify their characteristics to a point beyond -- well, beyond four-letter-word description. The inaptly named author declares he wrote the sort of book he'd like to read; if you relish graphic depictions of body parts, functions and actions perhaps you will find this entertaining. As for me, I feel that if this is "...the future of British Crime Fiction...," then there is little hope for the genre. And if this is the future of Britain, then there's not much hope for the country either.
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