Night And The City

Harry Fabian is a ponce, a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a cockney wide boy who adopts American tones and talks big, yet will never make it to the top. The world in which he operates is the Soho of the 1930s, a metropolitan tangle of dodgy geezers, prostitutes, spivs and strong-arm men, the very people who gave Soho its lingering, exotic reputation, a physical maze of drinking dens and spielers and street-corner cafes. A seminal 'lowlife' novel, which also presents a vivid glimpse of a lost London.