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The Motive
- Author
- Khurrum Rahman
- Narrator
- Waleed Akhtar
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 27 May 2021
- Run Time
- 2 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
Business has been slow for Hounslow’s small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But desperate times lead him there – and Jay finds himself in the middle of a crime scene.
Idris Zaidi, a Police Constable and Jay’s best friend, is having a quiet night when he gets a call out following a noise complaint at a house party. Fed up with the lack of excitement in his job, he visits the scene and quickly realises that people are in danger after a stabbing.
Someone will stop at nothing to get revenge . . .
Critics Review
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Praise for the Jay Qasim series:
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‘Thrilling and immersive …violence, love, humour and razor-sharp observation keep the pages turning’ Sunday Times Crime Club
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‘A timely addition to the new breed of socially committed British thrillers.’ Guardian
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‘A brilliant thriller. You’d be mad not to buy this.’
Ben Aaronovitch
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‘Sweary, funny and, above all, an absolutely cracking thriller that you’ll tear through, this is the anti-James Bond that the 21st century needs’ Emerald Street
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'East of Hounslow, in which a young Muslim finds himself forced to become an MI5 plant in a group of jihadists, is as British as Nelson’s Colum…a superb and exciting debut novel' Telegraph
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‘A very funny, tense thriller…Think Four Lions meets Phone Shop’ Red
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Details
- Author
- Khurrum Rahman
- Narrator
- Waleed Akhtar
- Duration
- 2 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 May 2021
- ISBN
- 9780008448271
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Short stories
Synopsis
A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021 Business has been slow for Hounslow’s small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But desperate times lead him there – and Jay finds himself in the middle of a crime scene. Idris Zaidi, a Police Constable and Jay’s best friend, is having a quiet night when he gets a call out following a noise complaint at a house party. Fed up with the lack of excitement in his job, he visits the scene and quickly realises that people are in danger after a stabbing. Someone will stop at nothing to get revenge . . .
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