Dealers, gangs and bent cops
The third London noir novel by the exciting writer Michael Keenaghan, Cocaine Eyes is a stolen car ride through the underbelly of the city. Bent coppers, gangs, hitmen and drug-dealers all play a part. Mr Keenaghan certainly knows his stuff, and this leads to an exciting and entertaining story that keeps you reading. The writer has a great ear for genuine, earthy street dialogue, and the characters jump off the page.
Unlike other crime novels, Cocaine Eyes has a touch of realism about it. You can almost smell the gun smoke and hear the screech of tyres against the grimy roads as you are pulled into this crazy world of crime and police corruption. It is about time that the UK challenged the US on the crime novel front. American writers such as Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler, John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell have cornered the market in the UK when we have great crime novelists of our own. Michael Keenaghan being one of them.
If you like your crime novels gritty and believable then this one is definitely for you. A great book to take you away from your cell and out into the streets of London and the darkly funny world of Cocaine Eyes. A five-star read; order it in your prison library today!
Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan was published in May 2025 by Nocturnal Publishers.
Cheers Noel!