Roger Cottrell's latest novel, REDEMPTION SONGS, is the first part of the Jaded Jerusalem series featuring tough, but flawed, black Birmingham cop Alan Kemp, who is drawn into a vortex of corruption through his quest to nail Yardie boss King Jason. It's debt to Chester Himes is self evident, but it also revisits the convergence of social realism (and anti-capitalist critique) with the crime thriller of the 1970s, placing Cottrell in a tradition already represented by Jake Arnott, David Peace and his (contemporary) hero Martyn Waits. You can check the novel out on  http://www.lulu.com/content/5620240 and the ISBN is ISBN 978-1-4092-5446-1 A YOU TUBE pilot will be posted shortly. Roger is available for interview by the left and other media and is hoping to use his position as head of filmmaking at Kidderminster College to launch a festical for radical filmmakers in the region in the summer. Roger is a veteran of the battle of Digbeth and totally committed to the defeat of the BNP, racism and fascism in this region by whatever means necessary!!!!!
(They get a kicking from AFA in Redemption Songs!)