A BRAVE NEW WORLD – AN ULTRA VIOLENT NEW WORLD ORDER

Brought up in the violent gangland life since birth brothers Mat and Nic take the reins from their father as his successor and become the gangland bosses of East London.

Mat gets involved in the illegal drug trade after laundering millions of dirty money from Brinks Mat. He becomes Pablo Escobar’s main European cocaine distributor propelling the Hunter gang into the stratosphere of an untouchable crime syndicate.

But all of this comes at the ultimate price. In a world filled with serial killers, Yardies and Ultra-Violent radical feminists, who can you trust?

Set against the backdrop of East London in the 1980s with systemic police corruption, racism and poverty, juxtaposed with beautiful women, decadence and the Docklands Development. Blood Betrayal is a gritty and darkly humorous story and the first in a duology.

Blood Betrayal by Eric Richardson is a gory gangland thriller set in 1980s London. The book opens with the murder of a woman and her two children who are linked to a crime family. The story, then told via five acts, goes back in time and looks at the players of this family.

If you are of a squeamish nature then I think you should give this book a miss. However, if raw and brutal thrillers are your thing then Blood Betrayal will be right up your street.

Although told in just five acts there are chapters within these acts so don’t worry it is just five chapters long. Each chapter follows a member of the crime family, the Hunters. The family are ruthless, nasty, and downright psychotic. They only care about making money and lo-and-behold anyone who stands in their way.

There is a lot of dialogue within the pages which did nark after a while but not enough to put me off. At times some of the tales felt far-fetched but then I am a world away from gangland life/feuds, but then knowing what the Kray’s did when they ruled parts of London I may be very mistaken.

Overall, if you like books that puts the characters at the forefront and gives you a taste of lawless 1980s London then this is the book to pick up. It is gritty, violent, and twisty as well as entertaining and compelling. There is also a sequel on the way too.

Blood Betrayal is Eric Richardson’s first novel, he wrote whilst serving a lengthy stretch at Her Majesty’s pleasure. Since leaving Belmarsh he has turned his life around and now works as a full-time specialist consultant on diversity and inclusion for the Order of the Nine Angles. He is currently working on his follow up book – whilst bumper recruiting in Islington North.