''Whenever Jake Arnott''s got a new book out, I drop everything knowing that the next couple of hours are going to be pure gangland bliss.'' DAVID BOWIE

Ranging from the Swinging Sixties to the Raving Nineties and with a cast that includes Machiavellian gangsters, politicians, bent coppers, actresses and gutter journalists, Jake Arnott''s classic trilogy is at once sharply funny, relentlessly compelling, and frighteningly real.

THE LONG FIRM

is the cult bestseller that launched Jake Arnott as one of the most exciting new voices of the decade: ''A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it''s set'' (Independent on Sunday)

HE KILLS COPPERS

is a ''mesmerizing, brilliant'' (New York Times Book Review) literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state.

TRUECRIME

is a blistering take on Cool Britannia and London''s underbelly in the 1990s, and ''the most expansive, ironical and funny novel of the series'' (Daily Telegraph)