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Another Man's World
from Amazon reviewers
Ex-boxer Garron is back, now working full time as a bodyguard and rent collector and struggling with both his wrecked past and his bleak future. Working for shady businessmen and criminals, he's trying to stay one step out of their life and make sense of his own. But at a time when Garron sees a possible way out of his troubles, one small job starts to escalate out of control and betrayal by friends and manipulation by enemies sees him dragged into a world of unlicensed fights and shotgun robberies, a world where he is pulled into confrontation with career criminal Adam Hillier, a world in which Hillier walks unchallenged. It is another man's world. Read an extract here...
Cold Fire, Calm Rage
from Amazon reviewers
An ex-boxer turned bodyguard finds himself out of his depth and struggling to survive double-crosses by London gangsters and manipulation by European criminals in a thriller that owes as much to the noirish world of Chandler as it does to the underworld of London. 'Write what you know' is what they always tell you. But sometimes it's hard to know where the fiction separates from the reality. "Cold Fire, Calm Rage" is such a story and in it Joe Stein produces a gritty realism that leaves many others for dead. This is not a glamorised gangster story. This is how it is.
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"Garron is a killer and hard as nails...Stein writes with real class and has created a devastatingly credible and hugely desirable character in Garron."
Read the full review on 'The truth about books' website at:
http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/anothermansworld_joestein.html - Garron
Joe Stein’s lead character listed on US genre website
Joe Stein's downmarket bodyguard and ex-boxer, Garron, has been given his own entry on the Thrilling Detective Website, a US site that lists literary PIs. He's up there with Marlowe, Spade, Archer and Burke.
It's not immortality, but it's pretty cool after only two books and that on a site that is the final word on a genre which at its best, is significant literature worthy of recognition.
Check it out at: http://thrillingdetective.com/eyes/garron.html - Another Man’s World
"A terrific read, impossible to put down. Ex-boxer Garron is no two-dimensional thug, but a complex guy with a conscience. With this visual, visceral and engrossing story, Joe Stein takes the crime noir novel to new heights. Perfect for the screen."
Author Sally Spedding
"You’ll want to read faster and faster... Deftly drawn characters and a wonderfully lurid setting set this up as a book that will stay with you long after you finish reading. This is the full package."
Jon Jordan - Crimespree Magazine - Cold Fire, Calm Rage
"A Satisfyingly Gritty Thriller"
The Big Issue
"Vivid Scenes..Depth and Substance"
Crimespree Magazine
"Hard hitting and brutally blunt at times, yet...written for the thinking reader" Check out D J Kirkby's review of both 'Cold Fire, Calm Rage' and 'Another Man's World' on her review blog at: www.anaspiereviews.blogspot.com
An article on Joe's books appears in the latest edition of Thrilller UK (issue 31). The magazine is available via the Thriller UK website at: www.thrilleruk.fsnet.co.uk/latest.htm or from Murder One bookstore in central London.
