Born Under Punches
by Martyn Waites
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Pub Date Dec 27 2011 | Archive Date Oct 16 2012
Open Road | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Description
“This is the book I became a writer to write” – Martyn
Waites
Two decades ago, Coldwell had a thriving coal industry until a strike brought its occupants to its knees. Today the town is desolate; a crumbling facade whose streets are lined with empty shops and populated by ghosts.
As the novel shifts between 1984 and 2001, five long time residents; a heroic footballer, a Dean Martin–obsessed thug, an increasingly desperate striking miner, a crusading journalist, and the reporter’s troubled sister struggle to escape their town’s past and change the present.
Advance Praise
“Not so much a crime novel as a furious study of
the social spoilage which makes crime inevitable . . . Waites’ book has a
reckless energy which demands attention and respect.”
“Not so much a crime novel as a furious study of the social spoilage which makes crime inevitable . . . Waites’ book has a reckless energy which demands attention and respect.”
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781453237564 |
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