What Was Promised (48 page)
Authors: Tobias Hill
‘Genuinely thrilling . . . It is hard to overestimate Hill’s descriptive powers. The Underground network is evoked so convincingly it delivers a considerable emotional punch, as if this Underground and its hideous crimes are telling us something uncomfortable about ourselves’
New Statesman
‘Beautifully paced and genuinely exciting’
Evening Standard
‘Until now, no writer has succeeded in capturing the heady combination of menace and gothic excitement that lurks under the surface of London . . . Hill’s precision is extraordinary and his ear for a range of dialects uncannily accurate’
The Times
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First published in Great Britain 2014
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