Blood Drunk

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels meets vampires in this brutal, voice-driven urban fantasy about a South London gangster who discovers the only thing more cutthroat than the criminal underworld is the world of vampires.

Slow Horses meets The Dresden Filesin this darkly funny urban fantasy about a South London gangster who discovers the only thing more cutthroat than the criminal underworld is the world of vampires.

Brutal gangsters and bloody vampires. A filthy pub crawl from the streets of South London to a grimy school of magic. Blood Drunk is for fans of Slow Horses, Rivers of London, and The Dresden Files.

Freddie Burns just wants ten pints, a fight, and to take over his family's South London crime empire.

When a routine hit plunges Freddie into a secret London, he discovers a city run by vampire clans and a ruthless Firm keeping it all hidden. Good thing he has a magical talent for giving vampires a good kicking. Them, and anyone else who looks at him funny.

Shipped off to their grubby little magic school to hone his powers, everyone wants Freddie's lethal power on their side. But nobody trusts a South London hooligan who smells of cheap lager and cigarettes.

Too bad it might be up to Freddie to save the world – or at least not wreck it entirely. He just needs a drink first.

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‘I literally couldn't put it down’ – Catriona Ward, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Nowhere Burning

‘Dark, violent, intelligent and quick. Ben Shepherd is one to watch’ – Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files series

‘Grimy, gritty and a huge amount of fun’ – RJ Barker, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Ships and Mortedant's Peril