Bloodstained kings - Softcover

Tim Willocks is a British doctor and psychiatrist who runs a drug detox clinic in London and writes literate thrillers and screenplays in his spare time. He also loves colorful American locales: his Green River Rising took place inside a Texas prison, and Bloodstained Kings stretches across a gaudy Southern landscape from New Orleans to rural Georgia. When a corrupt cop dies, a demented woman who keeps her husband locked in a cage and a doctor haunted by guilty secrets are among those who rush to search the dead man's files for information that could destroy them. Readers who enjoy the absolute blackness of James Ellroy's books should feel right at home with Willocks.

Praise for Tim Willocks's Green River Rising

"Memorable . . . mythic . . . as fine a thriller as one could ask for."
--People

"A stunner--and maybe the greatest prison novel ever . . . pure adrenaline-fueled narrative . . . a superbly contained trip to hell."
--James Ellroy

"A hugely compelling page-turner . . . holds our interest in a vise grip."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Great fun . . . fiendishly suspenseful . . . It's difficult to think of anyone who has written with the crazy conviction and energy that Tim Willocks brings to this novel."
--The New Yorker

"Beautifully vivid. . . eminently believable . . . triumphantly realized . . . Willocks has a gift."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Vividly rendered . . . a fascinating journey . . . powerfully brutal yet poetically achieved."
--Entertainment Weekly

"A finely written novel . . . Green River Rising is more than a thriller."
--The Washington Post Book World