Rex King is back! And Phantom at the Feast is available from your favourite bookshop from today…

We’re all thrilled by the two early reviews:

Here’s something com­pletely dif­fer­ent. White’s epic police thriller sports a com­plex and engross­ing plot, revolving around the many secrets held by former under­cover cop Rex King, and par­tic­u­larly his involve­ment in the Miners’ Strike, all com­plic­ated by the appear­ance of a daugh­ter he never knew he had. White com­bines all this, though, with a play­ful love of digres­sion. Each chapter includes all the solu­tions to a quick cross­word, along with a cor­nu­copia of fas­cin­at­ing trivia. — The Best New Fiction, Mail on Sunday

This is not your average thriller, this is your exceptional experimental crime novel. For Tony White to write a sequel to The Fountain in the Forest, to merge the avant-garde with the whodunnit . . . is to rub out much of what has gone before in crime fiction. The past haunts the book, the London of Chris Petit’s Robinson or the multi-layered, mythic ruins of Michael Moorcock’s Mother London, or the time-shifting echoes of Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings.Phantom at the Feast – like London – is built on top of its own ghosts . . . Like all great crime novels, the truth is not a revelation, it is a gradual calcification of options and the sovereignty of facticity. Phantom at the Feast is a site of resistance combatting the dystopian horizon of the AI literary industry . . . Against this algorithmic flattening, the novel – and this novel in particular – stands as a site of stubborn, human friction. — 3am Magazine

I hope you enjoy it!

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