The Cutting Crew (Paperback)

~ Steve Mosby (Author)

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'Steve Mosby has invented a suitably dark and uneasy world for his excellent noir thriller. ... Mosby has a pleasingly consistent style that manages to encompass intense emotion, intellectual musings and vicious violence. Not an easy task. ' -- Matthew Lewin THE GUARDIAN --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The small team of policemen never even identified the dead girl and, for the officers involved, her murder came to symbolize everything that was wrong with the city—a haphazard sprawl of commerce and indifference. Four months on, that group is in disarray. Sean has disappeared into the city's black heart and not returned, and Martin is separated from his job, his wife, and his friends. But then a simple note from his ex-partner forces him to re-enter an investigation he'd rather forget. "I found her," it says. The search leads him from one side of the city to the other in a downward spiral of violence and pain, and drags him into the orbit of the things that are really wrong with the city—the eight brothers rumored by legend to have control over everything.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Orion Publishing (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752877682
• ISBN-13: 978-0752877686
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,441,396 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual and original, September 18, 2007

By	Helen Simpson (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A relatively slow starter that somehow gets hold of you so you have to keep reading until the whole story has been unravelled.

Although it dips into different genres I would class it as a dark thriller with a futuristic feel, almost set in the here and now, but not quite. The strange names of the city's districts were more than a little surreal and the fact that armed police were the norm added to the futeristic vibes.

There was also a mythical air to the story which seemed accentuated by the almost gladiator style annual boxing event in the city. Along with the bad cops and mafia style underworld who always seemed to be one step ahead it made for a very unusual yet strangely compelling novel.