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City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 05-24-2006
Do you like your private eyes based in London of a Ugandan-Pakistani descent? Then Tommy Akhtar is the gumshoe. He smokes like a fiend. He drinks like fish. He spends most of the book recovering from a hangover or starting on one.
Altogether, the story is medium. It's the setting and the tone that sets it apart. It's a side of London you don't usually get. If you don't like cricket and can't pick up on the sland, it's going to be a rough ride.
But Tommy Akhtar has a lot to say most of it built around cricket metaphors handed down from his father.
I give you the opening line:
Tommy Akhtar Wrote:I have sometimes wondered how it might have been if I hadn't opened my door that morning; hadn't said "All right, Trouble? Good to see you with your jabbing fingers, swinging fists and no insurance, household or medical."