Fresh Blood - Bloodlines Author:Mike Ripley, Maxim Jakubowski (Editor) An anthology of 14 stories -- a brilliantly dreary collection of punks and grifters; unrelentingly, often gleefully, sordid. This new school of "fresh blood" authors portrays the mean streets of London and its environs with a gritty social realism. The central characters tend to be urban outsiders caught up in a violent wor... more »ld devoid of easy moral solutions. These are crimes of passion, crimes of betrayal, dark and often mindless, robberies which go terribly wrong or horribly right. The fourteen stories included here are all from this new generation of crime writers, except one, a previously unpublished piece by the acclaimed British noir writer, Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), "Nightmare in the Street." Also includes John Harvey's "She Rote," featuring Harvey's gritty policeman, Charles Resnik; stories by John B. Spencer, Russell James, Mark Timlin, Ian Rankin, Denise Danks, Chaz Brenchley, Joe Canzius, Stella Duffy, Nicholas Blincoe, Graeme Gordan, and Ripley and Jakubowski. The authors provide brief background notes to each story, and Ripley contributes an Introduction on the "fresh blood" genre itself.« less