The Hanging Club

Description

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead. SENTENCED TO DEATH: the gang member who's abused vulnerable girls; the wealthy drunk driver who's mowed down a child; and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British soldiers. As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes. And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home...

Promotion info

Someone just brought back the death penalty. The third book in Tony Parsons' bestselling DC Max Wolfe series.

Reviews

"I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing and I'm really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff." Peter James "Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing." Daily Mail "Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic." Lee Child "A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must read." Jeffery Deaver "'Had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence." Irish Independent

Author description

Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and was working on the night shift at Gordon's Gin Distillery in Islington when he was offered his first job in journalism on the New Musical Express. Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages, most recently Vietnamese. His semi-autobiographical novel Man and Boy won the Book of the Year prize.