“Godwin here gives us another master class in ‘power’ writing for the non-timid. Never an unnecessary word, nor a cliché in sight. This is a knock-out piece of writing. Staccato sentences that pile-on, turning the screw shock image by tightly registered shock image—by sheer force. I’ve said it before: Richard Godwin’s terrifying artistic vision and stiletto writing continue to out-Burroughs William Burroughs, the preceding master reporter on social dysfunction and inventor of gripping images of the bizarre. Our dehumanised, demented times, lying in wait, just under the surface. Bravo, Richard Godwin, yet another stunning piece of work.”
~ Stephen Bett’s most recent book is The Gross & Fine Geography:
New & Selected Poems

“I find Richard Godwin to be an exceptional writer with an extraordinarily fine mind. He conducted over two weeks the single best interview I’ve ever been involved with. His novels are always good with crackling dialogue. His latest, Wrong Crowd, is dazzling. Read him.”
~ Luke Rhinehart, author of the bestselling The Dice Man, the book that inspired Richard Branson to found the Virgin Empire

Richard Godwin is the critically acclaimed author of Apostle Rising, Mr. Glamour, One Lost Summer, Noir City, Meaningful Conversations, Confessions Of A Hit Man, Paranoia And The Destiny Programme, Wrong Crowd, Savage Highway, Double Lives, The Pure And The Hated, Disembodied, Buffalo And Sour Mash and Locked In Cages. His stories have been published in numerous paying magazines and over 34 anthologies, among them an anthology of his stories, Piquant: Tales Of The Mustard Man, and The Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime and The Mammoth Book Of Best British Mystery, alongside Lee Child. He was born in London and lectured in English and American literature at the University of London. You can find out more about him at his website www.richardgodwin.net, where you can read a full list of his works, and where you can also read Chin Wags At The Slaughterhouse, his highly popular and unusual interviews with other authors.