The Life

Martina Cole

Headline, 2013 - Fiction - 608 pages

The Bailey brothers are gangsters determined to make their mark in the world. Peter and Daniel are chalk and cheese in many ways, but together they are unstoppable. From the late seventies they rule London's East End and, when their sons join the business, it seems that no one can touch them. It's never easy at the top though, and there is always someone waiting to take you down - sometimes even those closest to you.

About the author

Martina Cole is the acknowledged queen of crime drama with more than twenty novels to her name, of which over a dozen have been No.1 bestsellers. Several of Martina's novels have been adapted for the screen, including The Take and The Runaway which were shown on Sky 1 to remarkable reviews. In addition, Two Women and The Graft have been adapted for the sta≥ both were highly acclaimed when performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, which also staged Dangerous Lady in 2012, celebrating twenty years since Martina's debut novel was published. Martina Cole is a phenomenon. She continues to smash sales records with each of her books, which have sold thirteen million copies. In 2011 Martina surpassed the £50 million sales mark since records began and was the first British female novelist for adult audiences to achieve this - and she has spent more weeks in the No. 1 slot on the original fiction bestseller list than any other adult novelist. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing is in a genre all its own - no one writes like Martina.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Life
• Author: Martina Cole
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Headline, 2013
• ISBN: 0755399498, 9780755399499
• Length: 608 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense