<p><strong>Praise for Mike Phillips</strong><br />‘This is Mike Phillips’s best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic’<br />The Times</p>
<p>‘Phillips delivers his seamy tale with an enviably warm spareness of effect’<br />Sunday Times</p>
<p>‘An incisive study of immigrant experience wrapped up in a gripping thriller’<br />Times Literary Supplement</p>
<p>‘The Best British thriller in years… A novel that seems to have been written for a purpose; it deals with the black British community as something other than a problem or a political cliché’<br />Marie Claire</p>
<p>‘Could have come from the pen of the master, Raymond Chandler’<br />Today</p>
<p>A thriller which maintains pace and provides excitements rooted in reality … a winner’<br />Guardian</p>
<p>‘There’s much here to suggest that Phillips could be one of our bravest, most incisive social commentators’<br />Mail on Sunday</p>
<p>Phillips’ depictions of urban London share more with Harlem and Los Angeles than the English drawing rooms of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell’<br />Financial Times</p>
<p>‘Phillips… gives a mean streetwise documentary edge to his hero’s hunt for a witness’<br />Sunday Express</p>
<p>‘Mr Phillips writes in a precise uncluttered style that suits the detective novel’s ritualistic form. But it is the sensibility of his hero – a black man – that lends freshness to the form itself’<br />The New York Times Book Review</p>
<p>‘As a political thriller it has something to say about multi-cultural Britain that is both revealing and intelligent … a good novel, deftly handled and deserving of praise’<br />Time Out</p>
‘This is Mike Phillips’s best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic’ The Times
Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend’s message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture, looking forward to reconnecting with family and old friends.
But his relaxing holiday turns dark when Mary disappears, and Sammy is caught up in a world of murder, sex, and corrupt politics that threatens to turn his world upside down.
Melded with social commentary around race, class and gentrification, Point of Darkness is a gripping thriller, still eerily relevant.
The third thriller in the Sam Dean series, a gripping crime thriller mystery for 2022
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Biographical note
Mike Phillips is the author of several books and screenplays as well as his award-winning Sam Dean novels, published by HarperCollins. In 1997 he was Writer in Residence at London’s South Bank Centre.