Bank Of The Black Sheep
Bank Of The Black Sheep
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Ex-private investigator Robin Llywelyn wakes up handcuffed to a hospice bed, full of morphine and with a fading memory as the cancer closes in. Unfortunately, bad detectives leave a lot of loose ends. Prosecuted for crimes he can't remember committing, he discovers that waiting in the wilds of West Wales is a hidden fortune.
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Bank Of The Black Sheep by Robert Lewis
Ex-private investigator Robin Llywelyn wakes up handcuffed to a hospice bed, full of morphine and with a fading memory as the cancer closes in. Unfortunately, bad detectives leave a lot of loose ends. Prosecuted for crimes he can't remember committing and pursued by cops and criminals alike for deals he has no recollection of doing, he discovers that waiting in the wilds of West Wales is a hidden fortune of the sort that men will kill for. So Llywelyn's last case sees him in a race against the reaper to score the final haul - and find out if he is the villain he appears to be.
Praise for Robert Lewis: Charles Bukowski meets Raymond Chandler in this meandering yet keenly plotted tale of a man at the bottom with nowhere to go but downSad, darkly funny and quite, quite brilliant -- Peter Guttridge
A crime caper with echoes of Ealing comedy, shades of James Ellroy and even a touch of Samuel Beckett... a compelling concoction, laced with dark humour and strangely life-affirming. Robin can't go on, but he does, and we go on rooting for him right to the very end * Independent on Sunday *
Robert Lewis' splendid creation Robin Llywelyn is a private eye of unsurpassed disintegration... a cracker of a novel... fizzy dialogue, superbly edgy writing and terrific humour * The Times *
Dark, bleak, sordid, sinister and very, very funny... Wonderfully poignant * Guardian *
Llewellyn is the real deal... Lewis' coruscating analysis of underclass, underfoot, outcast Britain is uncomfortable and challenging * Financial Times *
Bleakly funny, with a spectacularly flawed hero and a peculiarly uplifting (if gory) ending, Bank of the Black Sheep is a fitting conclusion to a sequence best described as extreme noir -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
The author's third novel fires on all cylinders * Publishers Weekly, USA (Starred Review) *
Relentlessly bleak, mordantly funny, and occasionally noirish, Lewiswrites brilliantly * Booklist USA *
A crime caper with echoes of Ealing comedy, shades of James Ellroy and even a touch of Samuel Beckett... a compelling concoction, laced with dark humour and strangely life-affirming. Robin can't go on, but he does, and we go on rooting for him right to the very end * Independent on Sunday *
Robert Lewis' splendid creation Robin Llywelyn is a private eye of unsurpassed disintegration... a cracker of a novel... fizzy dialogue, superbly edgy writing and terrific humour * The Times *
Dark, bleak, sordid, sinister and very, very funny... Wonderfully poignant * Guardian *
Llewellyn is the real deal... Lewis' coruscating analysis of underclass, underfoot, outcast Britain is uncomfortable and challenging * Financial Times *
Bleakly funny, with a spectacularly flawed hero and a peculiarly uplifting (if gory) ending, Bank of the Black Sheep is a fitting conclusion to a sequence best described as extreme noir -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
The author's third novel fires on all cylinders * Publishers Weekly, USA (Starred Review) *
Relentlessly bleak, mordantly funny, and occasionally noirish, Lewiswrites brilliantly * Booklist USA *
Robert Lewis was born in the Black Mountains, in the Brecon Beacons, which is by all accounts a beautiful part of the world. He spent his twenties getting sacked, living in bedsits, drinking in the dodgier pubs of various cities, and caring about the wrong things. Most of this is still going on. He still thinks literature can save him, and he's thirty now. He hasn't seen it save anyone else. His first novel, The Last Llanelli Train was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing, along with Zadie Smith and Christopher Brookmyre.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846687457 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846687454 |
| Title | Bank Of The Black Sheep |
| Author | Robert Lewis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-07-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2011 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |