High suspense, fast action and a moral frame, because alongside the lover of crime-writing, double-agents, and human fallibility, there’s an academic crouching in Harris’s back garden.” — Piers Plowright, West End Extra “As with the best of crime fiction, The Hollow Man utilises place beautifully. Set in the wealth centres of the capital where the oligarchs roam, the book shows us not the prosperous . Praise for A Hollow Man '[Belsey has] got to be London's coolest cop Harris has plundered London's underworld for his richly plotted and unusual detective series It's heady stuff' Daily Mail 'Thrills, spills and fine writing' Telegraph/5(91). · The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris is a noir police procedural featuring Detective Constable Nick Belsey. This is a procedural novel with a twist: Belsey is an antihero. He's broke, homeless, corrupt, and on the verge of unemployment. He just wants to find a way out of London and his life/5.
The Hollow Man is Oliver Harris's debut novel and the first release from Bourbon Street Books - Harper Collins' new imprint. I loved the opening chapters and introduction to Detective Constable Nick Belsey. "The earth was cold beneath his body,. His mouth had soil in it and there was a smell of blood and rotten bark.". The Hollow Man; About Oli; About Oli. Oliver Harris was born in north London in He has a degree in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from UCL, and an MA in creative writing from UEA. He has worked in clothing warehouses, PR companies and as a TV and film extra. The Hollow Man (Nick Belsey #1) Published October 23rd by Harper Paperbacks. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Oliver Harris (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.
Praise for A Hollow Man '[Belsey has] got to be London's coolest cop Harris has plundered London's underworld for his richly plotted and unusual detective series It's heady stuff' Daily Mail 'Thrills, spills and fine writing' Telegraph. The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris is a noir police procedural featuring Detective Constable Nick Belsey. This is a procedural novel with a twist: Belsey is an antihero. He's broke, homeless, corrupt, and on the verge of unemployment. He just wants to find a way out of London and his life. British author Harris’s searing first novel, a noir police procedural, features the anti-est of antiheroes, Det. Constable Nick Belsey, who wakes up one morning on Hampstead Heath, bruised.
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