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The Black Mile Soho Noir Thrillers #1 edition by Mark Dawson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

Without a single doubt the best book I've read in years, an reading two a week for over fifty years should provide a credential. I've had the privilege of reading many fine authors of Great Britain, including Ian Rankin, Val McDermott, Elizabeth George, and the Irish author of the exciting Jack Taylor series.

However, Mark Dawson has brilliantly captured a time period of historical importance for Great Britain, and by extension, Europe and the free world. Beginning just prior to the German Blitz, two brothers at odds find the same reasons for joining the Metropolitan Police Department.

While wars clouds envelop southern England, Frank and younger brother Charlie, battle not only the obvious, more marked criminal elements, they must battle against rampant corruption among the highest levels of those sworn to stamp out such corruption, walking an ever invisible line that pits friend against friend, lower rank against the very highest echelon, the most decorated, men with decades of experience, almost all of which has been honorable. Temptation, coupled with low salaries and easy pickings take these few beyond the pale. Playing a double game can lead to dismissal under the most onerous conditions. Their lives ruined, family disgrace, decades of lost pensions, despised by former comrades, laughed at by the very elements they'd previously hunted, arrested and imprisoned - lost souls who would rather die a violent death then face open trial and all the ramifications following. And, they do. Take upon this quick, violent death that could and often is, swept under the rug, frequently with an epitaph undeserved, honors tarnished, all to benefit the service they'd sworn to serve, all for preserving that very service. Nothing new here, right? Mark Dawson has woven an easy to follow, exceedingly human story, in which both good and evil are blurring and two brothers risk their lives and reputations attempting, not always winning, a balancing act where they are universally seen as snitches by other officers, yet managing the arduous, dangerous task of pursuing known criminals often less murderous than brother officers turned crooks, killers.

If you don't read this first in the series this coming year, you'll miss an opportunity not unlike this side of " the pond, " but without the wonderful idioms of that marvelous country in a time of its worst perils! Damn it! Read this book! I guarantee you will not be disappointed.


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The Black Mile Soho Noir Thrillers #1 edition by Mark Dawson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

This is relatively accomplished and kept me turning pages. The pacing is good, although at times jumbled and confusing. This is (apparently) based on real-life occurrences in wartime London. As a police procedural (alone), it would get high marks, since this felt authentic. However, the plot revolves around two brothers in the police force, and their relationship and sibling professional rivalries. (As played out in the novel) this facet just didn't ring true or realistic. Also, if you're going to bother to set a procedural in wartime London, it really needs to ooze atmosphere in order to make it worthwhile. I guess I've been spoiled by John Lawton whose books about Freddie Troy were so layered and descriptive that you could smell it. Not so here.

I'll try one of Mark Dawson's other series, but unfortunately I'm not feeling compelled to pick up the next one in the Soho series.
This is a well written book with a really good story. It draws you in. You really want to know what happens next. It starts in 1940 London. The Nazi's are about to start firebombing the city and there was a series of horrific murders being committed against young prostitutes.
There are three main characters and the author has a unique way of putting you inside each characters mind by separating them into their own chapters, writing from the first person tense for each character in that chapter. You are in their head with them, "seeing" scenes from each characters perspective. Very interesting.
I did not necessarily like these main characters. They had major flaws as people, yet I was drawn to each of them because I felt they were real people with real problems. Detective Frank Murphy is a violent man with a temper he could not sometimes control. His brother, Charlie, is a "do- gooder" detective and he wants to show he can be as good as his brother but in his own way. The brothers antagonism toward one another is palpable. Henry Blake is a despicable journalist and you really don't want to like him. But some how this all comes together and it works.
It's the story. There are mysteries within mysteries. This book keeps you guessing. Things are just not as they seem. You have to read the next chapter, and the next chapter, and so on. This one is a real page turner.
Is there anything I did not like about this book? Yes, I did not start out liking the old English expressions used in the book. I was unfamiliar with some of the expressions. It threw me at first, but it was easily understood and it helped place you smack dab in the center of 1940 London in a way that just telling you you were there never could.
This is a really good book. Try it, you'll like it.
I have greatly enjoyed, and given 5 stars to, every John Milton series book Mark Dawson has written. It was suggested I try Dawson's earlier Soho Noir Thrillers, so I began with this first one. It had two surprises (1) there is NO ACTION and (2) the plot is DULL and unimaginative.

Apart from those little faults, the book gets off to a rocky start with a barrage of London slang (incomprehensible to Yanks) and far too many character names, especially in the first few chapters. In addition to this confusion, the story begins with an unscrupulous reporter going off to happily make a name for himself covering serial killings of young women without giving a damn about them. All in all, this was a very inauspicious beginning. I almost put the book down then and there; but, being a loyal fan of Dawson's, I slogged on. That was a mistake. The above mentioned confusion continued throughout the book; and things like pronouns not referring to their nearest antecedents didn't help. The book did turn out to have an interesting ending, as best as I could decipher, which was even accompanied by a couple of action scenes. Too little too late.

But hold your fire, fans of the John Milton series. I'm one too.
Without a single doubt the best book I've read in years, an reading two a week for over fifty years should provide a credential. I've had the privilege of reading many fine authors of Great Britain, including Ian Rankin, Val McDermott, Elizabeth George, and the Irish author of the exciting Jack Taylor series.

However, Mark Dawson has brilliantly captured a time period of historical importance for Great Britain, and by extension, Europe and the free world. Beginning just prior to the German Blitz, two brothers at odds find the same reasons for joining the Metropolitan Police Department.

While wars clouds envelop southern England, Frank and younger brother Charlie, battle not only the obvious, more marked criminal elements, they must battle against rampant corruption among the highest levels of those sworn to stamp out such corruption, walking an ever invisible line that pits friend against friend, lower rank against the very highest echelon, the most decorated, men with decades of experience, almost all of which has been honorable. Temptation, coupled with low salaries and easy pickings take these few beyond the pale. Playing a double game can lead to dismissal under the most onerous conditions. Their lives ruined, family disgrace, decades of lost pensions, despised by former comrades, laughed at by the very elements they'd previously hunted, arrested and imprisoned - lost souls who would rather die a violent death then face open trial and all the ramifications following. And, they do. Take upon this quick, violent death that could and often is, swept under the rug, frequently with an epitaph undeserved, honors tarnished, all to benefit the service they'd sworn to serve, all for preserving that very service. Nothing new here, right? Mark Dawson has woven an easy to follow, exceedingly human story, in which both good and evil are blurring and two brothers risk their lives and reputations attempting, not always winning, a balancing act where they are universally seen as snitches by other officers, yet managing the arduous, dangerous task of pursuing known criminals often less murderous than brother officers turned crooks, killers.

If you don't read this first in the series this coming year, you'll miss an opportunity not unlike this side of " the pond, " but without the wonderful idioms of that marvelous country in a time of its worst perils! Damn it! Read this book! I guarantee you will not be disappointed.