TRANSFERENCE: Love + Hate in Rain City

'BRUTAL, DARK AND LYRICAL MANC NOIR'

As clubbers in Manchester's most notorious club partied hard in the 90s, a girl collapsed, falling from the stage after a bad pill.

Few noticed. Those that did, didn't care, lost in a hedonistic haze.

John Black, an ex-SAS soldier, who was working security that night, carried her out in his arms.

Now on witness protection for exposing the city's underworld after the girl's death, he returns to the city that disowned him. Helping a troubled mother search for answers to her son's suicide - as eerie recordings tell of increased sexual depravity in the block of flats he jumped from.

Confronting the orchestrator of his pains, he works to solve the case, have vengeance...and reclaim his lost identity.

'Lyrical-poetry and prose mix with blood down Manchster's harsh rain-soaked alleyways.'

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REVIEWS:

'Bowie's dark, hard-edged crime novel inaugurates a promising series.' - Publishers Weekly

'Dark, hard-edged crime noir.' - Publishers Weekly

'Noir fans will find a lot to like.' - BookLife

'Bowie's writing is lyrical, moody, funny and as gritty as hell...like a British blend of Jim Thompson and Nelson Algren.' - Paul D. Brazill, author of Guns of Brixton

'I would definitely recommend this crime novel and John Bowie as an author, and look forward to reading his next book.' - Amanda Brightman, on Untethered

'It's a loopy surreal fever dream of a novel, a dark, disorienting Möbius strip of people and places that are not always what they seem.' - 'The Thrilling Detective' on Untethered

'...its pages are packed full of deceit, human depravity and surprisingly dark humour.' - STORGY.com on Untethered