Лучшие книги Чарли Уильямса

Ройстон Блэйк работает начальником охраны ночного клуба `Хопперз`. Он гоняет на `Капри 2.8i` и без проблем разгуливает по Мэнджелу, зная, что братва его уважает. Но теперь по городку ходит слух, что Блэйк поступил не по понятиям и вообще сдулся. Даже Сэл об этом прознала. Более того, ему на хвост сели Мантоны, а закончить жизнь в их Мясном Фургоне как-то совсем не катит. Желая показать, что у него еще полно пороха в пороховницах, Блэйк разрабатывает стратегию, которая восстановит его репутацию, дарует внимание женщин и свяжет с чужаком - новым владельцем `Хопперз`. Убийство, резня и бензопила по имени Сьюзан - главные действующие лица этого потрясающего и странного дебютного романа, открывшего новое, жестокое и веселое течение в британской криминальной художественной литературе.

Ройстон Блейк - великолепный сплав благих намерений и раз­дутого мачизма, опять попадает в историю. Он замечает, что вокруг него все изменилось, и теперь уже никого не интересует пинта хоро­шего пива и тусовка в баре. У всего городка появилось новое увлече­ние, детские конфеты... Блейку придется разобраться со всем этим, но опять все идет не по плану...

There's bad stuff out there. Folks reckon things like vampires don't exist, but they does - Jock from the burger van told me. Plus I found an actual one of 'em, sleeping at the time in the back of a hearse I nicked that first morning. That's how me and Jock got to setting out freeing the world of 'em, using his bag o' wooden stakes and special bottles of whisky. Course, I knowed that vampires didn't exist, not when I stopped and done some thinking. And I knowed Jock were going through a bad patch, what with his son falling off that roof and him reckoning them immigrants pushed him. It's just that I didn't get much time for thinking, not with the coppers on our arse. Jock were off... and me with him.

Three years have passed since Royston Blake left Mangel for Parpham Mental Hospital, his unstable mind finally entrusted to professionals. He served his stretch, and now he’s out, pronounced “cured” by the Doc. But a lot can change in three years, even in Mangel. Blake’s gal, Sal, has gone off and had a kid for one. His kid…whom Blake’s never even met. Not to mention that most of his old haunts, including Hoppers, are gone, replaced by a gleaming new shopping mall. But like the Doc says, change isn’t always for the better. A mysterious opposition group calling itself the “Old Guard” has expressed its displeasure with the development in the local newspaper. Now words are no longer enough, and they want Blake to enforce their message the old-fashioned way. But Blake just wants to do right by his son, a simple dream made all the more complicated once he realizes Mangel won’t let him go without a fight. Charlie Williams has upped the stakes with King of the Road , a new twist on his violent, darkly comedic chronicles of Mangel.

The town of Mangel has always been a rough place, but rough turns to nightmarish when headless corpses begin piling up. The police are desperate for a suspect, and Royston Blake, the former pub doorman-turned-recluse is prime for the taking. He’s hauled in for questioning, but to no avail: this is one crime Blake didn’t commit. Yet the interrogation is enough to shake up his paranoid world. He realizes that, instead of hiding from the ills of the world, he should be fighting them. So begins Blake’s quest to score the unlikeliest of jobs for a guy like him: becoming a copper in Mangel. Considering his violent past, everyone—cops, criminals, even his ex-girlfriend—tries to dissuade him. But Blake’s a tenacious bloke, and what better way to convince the naysayers of his crime-fighting skills than to catch the butcher plaguing his town? As per usual, nothing goes according to plan in Blake’s attempt to turn over a new leaf, leaving him to slog through plenty of blood and muck in the deliciously suspenseful fourth installment of Charlie Williams’s darkly comic series.