Unlock Now Gang War Produced By Graham Johnson Released Through Publication

War reads in the beginning as an homage of sorts to sitelinkA Clockwork Orange, Text written in the street slang of its antagonists and a glossary in the back, It also carries such similar themes, that is teen gangs, drugs and the old ultraviolence I was always half expecting Dylan, it's antihero to start going on about his droogies and things being 'real horrorshow'.
Although for all intents and purposes it may as well be in Nadsat for all the winnets, Lowies and grids,
It remains pretty gritty and reasonable, godawful stuff you can actually imagine happening in some shitawful part of Liverpool,
Then it sort of jars into a boymeetsgirl bit in the middle, which appears to be Dylan's reprogramming, but with pitta bread and lopsided romance in place of, well


This is mercifully shortlived as we're thrown back into the housing estates where it promptly gets all grim again, before it takes a turn for the grim future reality in a police state with some flipflopping to a drugdealer's heavenly vision of Europe, Amsterdam being the centrepiece.


As the focus of narrative is drawn back from a single estate in the arseend of "the great white north", the book gets a bit meta.
A few bits of our own reality cameo, as I'm sure that the murdered child's mother is based on the fickle media portrail of Madeleine McCann's parents.


There's also a quite a lot of the book which just threatens to date terribly like naming the iMac G as something getting robbed off a photographer, to studding the narrative with talk of Facebook , Twitter and the actually already dated MySpace remember that.


There is so much graphic sex/rape/anally raped girl licking sprinkled cocaine off of her smashed up face and toilet cistern, it reads like slashfic how I imagine slashfic reads.


The book is pretty compelling for all that and I'd like to know if the research this chap did was actually to transcribe the fantasies of the awful reallife counterparts of the Nogzie and Crocky gangs.
'If those pricks want a war, lad, we'll show what some proper soljas can do, '

Dylan, Nogger and their crew 'tax' rival drug dealers using a redhot steam iron and celebrate by making videos of themselves raping wannabe WAG s.
In their world, guns and knives are as common as mobile phones, But when an innocent threeyearold girl is killed in the crossfire, extreme measures are brought in to combat gang warfare,

From burgeoning organised crime to warped celebrity culture, Gang War is an apocalyptic vision of a world in freefall.


The gripping debut novel by the bestselling author of Powder Wars is a mindblowing tale that is all the more shocking because it is inspired by reallife events.
or i really can't decide. . what a dividing book. . it has the depravity of Last Exit to Brooklyn with the hoplessness of The Spy who came in from the Cold mixed with the random violence of A Clockwork Orange.
. times all that byand you are nearly there, I'm quite a hardend reader, . not much fazes me but even i had to put this down several times just for a breather as the violence just explodes suddenly and there is a huge amount of bloody and traumatic rape scenes.
. especially anal rape of both sexes, . . this book is definately NOT for the faint hearted or anybody that's just had breakfast, You will not like the main characters amp you are not supposed to like them or even empathize with the God awful life theyv'e been spewed up in.
. . i've just finished this aboutminutes ago amp i'm annoyed with Dylan, . . Ok, i saw it comming amp all the little fuckers derserve to get their comeupance but i at least thought Dylan had abit of nogging about him.
. it was never going to end all 'chick lit', . but still stupid tt.

So, there a response provoked an odd, violent amp engaging story with bleak, futureless kid's dripping in depravity amp sodomy, gun's amp drug's amp lot's of polyester Liverpool shirts.
. To be honest I was disappointed with this,

I've read practically all of Graham's books think I've only gotmore to go and although he has a wealth of knowledge about the gangs and gangsters of Liverpool this book is as far fetched as a bucket of sht from China.


The way some girls are treated are unrealistic, practically raped yet actually seem OK with it,

Men being rogered with broom handles and smirking at it

Men and late teens actively pursuing

younger girls i.
eand showing off about it come on, that might happen with a paedo on his own but a so called bunch of gangsters

The Liverpool crime areas being taken over by the military as if it was some Iraqi war zone

Characters clearly based on real people You tell me Rocky O'Rourke isn't Wayne Rooney.
Pauline McInerny isn't Colleen

The kid who gets shot Chalina and the circumstances around it are clearly but loosely based on Rhys Jones.


It's just such an unbelievable load of drivel, I've loved everything Graham has written but his first work of fiction leaves a lot to be desired,

At times it seems as though the whole thing a fantasy reamed off by ayear old kid, there's no substance to this book at all.


Shame, because Graham's other books are excellent,

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