11. No More Heroes by Ray Banks

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11. No More Heroes by Ray Banks

This is the third (i think) Cal Innes novel. I’ve not read the first two. Sometimes the library doesn’t get all the books in the series.

This one takes place in Manchester, England. It’s more noir than crime ficiton. I really liked it up until the last 50 pages.

I will say it has loads of swearing. And I’m all for gratuitous swearing, right? So when I notice that it’s loads and loads of swearing then it must really be bad. It’s also chock full of British slang. So if you’re not up on all the britslang I’d read this one close to the internet so you can look up some stuff. Most of it isn’t really necessary to know, but some of it is important enough.

i was able to guess at nowt and spanner. but i had to look up “chip and pin” and some government stuff, because the book has some social/racial/political things in it that i didn’t know about. And generally I don’t like to have to do “research” when I’m reading fiction, but I really liked the Cal Innes character, and wanted to really “get” the book. Well done to the author.

Cal Innes is sort of a PI and not like a squeaky clean character. A bit of an addict, alkie whatnot. Same old same old, but I really liked him. It’s noir, so it’s dark and there’s really no good guys, I’d say, not that Cal’s a bad guy really, but with the illegal drugs and all…

I’d like to read the first two books.

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