Self- confessed geek Graham Ellis is a top-class casino pit boss who is ‘demoted’ to a low-rent casino is Salford after an altercation with his boss. While there he encounters Barry Pollard, a local gangster, and things soon spiral way out of his control. Ray Banks’ Inside Straight is a masterful slice of Brit GritContinue reading “Recommended Read: Inside Straight by Ray Banks”
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Top Tips: Recommended Reads
So, what have I been reading of late? Well, I’ll tell you… Wolf Tickets by Ray Banks Things aren’t exactly tickety-boo for the aging hard man Cobb. He’s feeling his age, living in a dump of a flat, reduced to drinking gut-rot whiskey and shoplifting from charity shops. Then he gets a phone call fromContinue reading “Top Tips: Recommended Reads”
True Brit Grit At The Cinema And On TV
A bit back, I wrote an article for The Sabotage Times about Brit Grit television. I took a gander at three shows in particular, Public Eye, Gangsters and Cracker. All were in-your-face, hard-hitting crime dramas from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s respectively. And now, it looks like a bunch of the writers that have contributedContinue reading “True Brit Grit At The Cinema And On TV”
Short Sharp Interview : Ray Banks
PDB) If your Private Eye hero Cal Innes and Tony Black’s Gus Dury went on a drinking session, who would be the first to get their head kicked in? Innes would be the first one to get his head kicked in, absolutely. But it’d be Dury that would’ve caused the aggro in theContinue reading “Short Sharp Interview : Ray Banks”
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