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Gangland: the explosive new thriller from Queen of the Underworld Jessie Keane

Jessie Keane

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The Darke family and their associates are under attack.

Ruby's burlesque club has been razed to the ground.

Her son Kit's closest associate, Rob Hinton, is dead.

And when Ruby's lover, gangland boss Thomas Knox, is blown to pieces by a car bomb, everyone suspects a rival gang.

But is that the truth?

All they have to do is stay alive and outwit someone who seems hellbent on revenge ...

'We love a gangland thriller - and no one writes them better than Jessie Keane' CLOSER

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Jessie Keane

Jessie Keane

Dubbed 'Queen of the Underworld', Jessie Keane is of Romany gypsy stock. She was born rich, in the back of her gran's barrel top wagon, and her family thrived until their firm crashed into bankruptcy and became poor. Her father died when she was a teenager and she fled to London to escape grim reality, finding there a lifelong fascination with the criminal underworld and the teeming life of the city.

Twice divorced and living in a freezing council flat, she decided to pursue her childhood aim to become a writer. She sold her wedding dress to buy a typewriter and penned her first Annie Carter book, Dirty Game.

This was followed by five more Annie Carter books, all Sunday Times bestsellers, then Ruby Darke arrived in Nameless, Lawless and The Edge. Jessie's stand-alone novels include Jail Bird, The Make, Dangerous, Fearless, The Knock and The Manor.

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