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“One of the tensest books I’ve read in some time.”Robert Parker, Crime Reviews
Satirical Crime Novel
How far would you go to get what you always wanted?
Bestseller
Amazon Hot New Releases – Satire and Amazon category bestseller – Mass Media
How far would you go to get what you always wanted?
When Jason lands a job at a local newspaper, it’s supposed to launch him into the big-time journalism he dreams of. Instead he finds himself stuck in a small-time rut, ordered to write clichéd stories that he hates.
But then he uncovers the scoop of a lifetime.
One that will allow him to escape and make his name. And a sackful of money.
All he has to do is tell a little lie…
But to his horror, that lie puts a teenager’s life at risk.
With deadlines looming, can Jason avoid arrest, beat his rivals, file his story on time, and yet save his journalistic soul?
The Breaking of Liam Glass is a fast-paced double-award-shortlisted urban satire. A scathingly funny and dark portrait of a city on the brink of chaos and a young journalist who will do anything to sell his story. Almost.
If you like novels with a rogues’ gallery of vivid media characters and an unlikely anti-hero, you’ll love this rollicking tale of the stark realities of tabloid journalism.
Read The Breaking of Liam Glass to open up the oddball world behind the headlines today!
Praise for The Breaking of Liam Glass
What readers and reviewers are saying
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“Utterly gripping, darkly realistic and endlessly entertaining.”Liz Barnsley, Latest Reads
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“Scabrously funny, full of venom.”David Prestidge, Between the Covers
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“Verve and wit… cutting and dissolving like scenes from a gangster movie…”Piers Plowright, Camden New Journal
“A crime story that is both very topical and darkly funny…”Robert Parker – Crime Reviews
“A brilliant satire on modern Britain. Charles Harris draws his dagger and spares no-one…”David Prestidge – Fully Booked Reviews: Between The Covers
“Charles Harris’s darkly humorous broadside of a thriller…”Andrew Wallace – Book Reviews
“Life in the world of tabloid journalism with the vultures gathering…”Col’s Criminal Library
“An intensely addictive page turner…”Liz Barnsley – Liz Loves Books: Latest Reads
“Funny, concerned and sharp…”Richard Fernandez – Cafe Thinking Book Reviews
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“A fast-paced, entertaining ride from start to finish.”Paul Bassett Davies
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“A brilliantly told satire about modern British life.”Helena Halme
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“Noir, gritty and fast-paced, the novel feels a classic, gripping, pulp-fiction that immediately engages the reader in the investigations after Liam’s attackers. The chase is a magnificent journey across a contemporary London and its people, where their daily lives are a powerful portrait of humankind… Highly recommended to true noir lovers! I loved it.”Natalie Saiph Massone
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“Must-read book this summer. A crime story with a twist… highly recommend.”Rita Wheeler
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“A sparkling story about things you suspect are true and hope are not. Be entertained by a couple of careerists, on a breakneck path. Playing fast and loose with moral scruples, their shady methods turn into dirty tricks, deceptive manipulations and fake facts. Liam Glass deserves to become a bestseller.”Lolita Fortuin, Copenhagen
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“Finally a British story that has crackling insight into contemporary London life of ordinary folks and which surprisingly reflects the city’s true ethnic mix. It pops with snappy one-liners that make you laugh and stop you dead with their honesty.”Somi De Souza
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“You will find it hard not to be seduced by this unlikely hero or to chuckle inwardly in horror at the goings on around us that are sadly probably more truth than fiction.”Myrna Jelman
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“The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris is a gripping read, sometimes satire and sometimes a too believable insight into the world of the tabloids, cheque book journalism and police investigations. I didn’t want to put it down right until the end.”Associate Editor Albedo One
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“This exciting must-have book by award-winning writer Charles Harris is an entertaining insight into contemporary investigative journalism and even politics in England… a highly researched modern life crime novel.”Spiros Kagadis
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“An ambitious picaresque satire of the press, local government and the police in London. Bitter, comic and exceedingly human.”Shelley Katz
