Garron
Created by Joe Stein

"I started to leave when I remembered my gun."
-- Garron in Cold Fire, Calm Rage

London ex-fighter GARRON is a real piece of work, a man with a "wrecked past" and a "bleak future." He gets by working odd jobs, essentially as a heavy-for-hire, although if the law comes calling, he prefers to say he's a bodyguard or maybe a rent collector.

His clients tend to be slightly hinky businessmen and/or criminals, and his world is definitely on the mean streets end of the spectrum, full of fences, crooked cops, gun dealers, bookies, thugs, junkies, hookers, etc. -- all the usual suspects. Still, Garron tries to keep himself out of trouble. But wouldn't you know it? Something always seems to go wrong... and Garron has to make like a detective.

What marks this story isn't so much the much-touted "gritty realism" of the setting, but Garron's all-too-human flaws. In fact, sometimes I wondered if maybe he'd taken one too many shots to the head.But it makes him not just an occasionally unpredictable character (and narrator) but also a refreshing one.

Author Joe Stein is from North London and his first job was in a scrap-yard, stripping copper out of electrical cables. From there, he says it was "only a short eighteen-year jump to writing."

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Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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