`A wonderfully evocative walk on the wild side of 1970s London, Beneath the Streets is darkly comic and deeply moving. A breathtaking, heartbreaking thriller' - Jake Arnott; 'Ticks all the boxes for me. Gay history. Jeremy Thorpe. And a rent boy turned detective called Tommy Wildeblood. Fantastic' - Jonathan Harvey; 'A f***ing fantastic read. A gripping what-if thriller, packed with vivid period detail and page-turning twists. To find myself actually making an appearance in the final chapter was just cream on the cake' - Tom Robinson; 'A page-turning mystery, skilfully plotted and filled with tension, Beneath The Streets lifts the lid on 1970s subculture to spine-tingling effect' - Paul Burston; `A thrilling and brilliantly imaginative novel. It takes you into the secret world of Soho in the 1970s. But then suddenly it opens another door into the hidden world of violence and corruption that still lies underneath the England we know today' - Adam Curtis; 'Stonkingly good' - Rose Collis
Adam Macqueen's books include The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and The Lies of the Land: A Brief History of Political Dishonesty. The King of Sunlight, his biography of the soap manufacturer William Hesketh Lever, was named by The Economist as one of its books of the year. He has contributed to Private Eye since 1997, and wrote the bestselling history of the magazine which was published for its 50th anniversary in 2011. He lives on the south coast of England with his husband, painter Michael Tierney.
'After I finished writing A Very English Scandal, I took a solemn
vow - that I would rather spit-roast my own offspring than read
anything else about the Jeremy Thorpe Affair. Seldom have I gone
back on my word with more pleasure. As boldly conceived as it is
vividly realised, Beneath the Streets is a delight' - John Preston,
The Critic;
'Gripping... this very English scandal has wit and invention to
spare' - The Observer
'Adam Macqueen's excellent debut thriller [has] a thoroughly
likeable hero while the plot skilfully mixes fact with fiction' -
Mail on Sunday;
'What if Jeremy Thorpe had succeeded in murdering Norman Scott?
That's the gripping premise behind this smart story of corruption,
murder and establishment cover-up' - iPaper, 40 best books of the
year
A gripping and occasionally hilarious depiction of what, up to this
year at least, must have been the craziest period of modern British
politics. The twist, on literally the last page, is superb. While
some 1970s scandals were played out beneath the streets, some were
hiding in very plain sight' - Law Society Gazette.
`A wonderfully evocative walk on the wild side of 1970s London,
Beneath the Streets is darkly comic and deeply moving. A
breathtaking, heartbreaking thriller' - Jake Arnott
‘You think you know how mental the 1970s was? This book will remind
you that it was even more insane than that: a time when the prime
minister’s personal doctor seriously offered to poison one of his
aides. Any TV adaptation would probably have to feature 10 percent
fewer blowjobs’ - Helen Lewis‘A thrilling read...incredibly
powerful’ - Nina Sosanya
'Ticks all the boxes for me. Gay history. Jeremy Thorpe. And a rent
boy turned detective called Tommy Wildeblood. Fantastic' - Jonathan
Harvey
'A f***ing fantastic read. A gripping what-if thriller, packed with
vivid period detail and page-turning twists. To find myself
actually making an appearance in the final chapter was just cream
on the cake' - Tom Robinson
'A page-turning mystery, skilfully plotted and filled with tension,
Beneath The Streets lifts the lid on 1970s subculture to
spine-tingling effect' - Paul Burston
`A thrilling and brilliantly imaginative novel. It takes you into
the secret world of Soho in the 1970s. But then suddenly it opens
another door into the hidden world of violence and corruption that
still lies underneath the England we know today' - Adam Curtis;
'Stonkingly good' - Rose Collis
‘Really well done. The detail and the authenticity is all there:
London as a really scary, edgy, ugly place. The atmosphere is
brilliant... As a portrait of a world I thought it was really
fantastic, and I also read it with my computer by my side because I
was constantly looking up the real-life figures and I was
constantly shocked and amazed by how much of this is true’ David
Nicholls‘A thrilling and brilliantly imaginative novel. It takes
you into the secret world of Soho in the 1970s. But then suddenly
it opens another door into the hidden world of violence and
corruption that still lies underneath the England we know
today’ Adam Curtis‘A gripping thriller, interwoven with a
really important thread about the condition of being gay in the
1970s’ Harriett Gilbert, A Good Read‘I love, absolutely love,
alternate history and conspiracy thrillers. I particularly enjoy
works grounded in great historical moments. Real historical figures
and events are weaved seamlessly through [this] novel’s narrative.
It also looks at the injustices gay men faced in the seventies.
This human element is well done and compelling…I look forward to
reading book two, wherever it takes us’ Adventures in Crime
Fiction Land‘A cracking read...a real page turner, with many
twists…and a surprising and shocking ending. I raced through this
‘what if’ thriller, enjoying it very much but after I’d finished, I
felt angry: about the exploitation of young boys by both thugs and
‘officer class’, about police corruption, about government
cover-ups and what seems to be a quite illegal use of the Secret
Service for purely political ends’ Call Me Madam‘A dark,
realistic, totally gripping and intriguing thriller that had me
glued to the page. A great blend of fact and fiction... full of
tension and superb characterisation’ Babbage and Sweetcorn‘A
wonderfully concocted storyline and plot which blends fiction with
real-life characters in a gripping and intriguing thriller’ AMW
Books *****‘What a cracking book! It’s addictive, thrilling and
utterly delicious and has the most chilling of twists at the end’
Brown Flopsy
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