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THE WHORE OF BABYLON - NEW FROM MEAN STREETS PRESS - meanstreetspress.com

When private eye Joe Milo comes to after being sandbagged in his office, the seductive Cleo arrives to help him recover his pride and convinces him to take on her case.
What she doesn’t tell him is that she’d been a baglady for the Russian Mob and for a crooked London banker, and she also sidelines as a cage fighter under the moniker The Whore of Babylon, either of which might have warned Milo off. But being a sucker for a femme fatale, Milo and his sidekick Jonah are soon entangled with a corrupt British MI6 agent, plus an ex-KGB sociopath who runs a criminal empire out of Monaco on behalf of Russia’s FSB.
After these two government sponsored crooks combine forces against Joe and Jonah in this cleverly plotted, gripping and sexy thriller, the action transits from London to an explosive showdown in the South of France, in the third page-turning novel featuring the tough, laconic, wise-cracking and literate PI, Joe Milo.


“With echoes of Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard, Warren Roberts has in Joe Milo created a protagonist with no counterpart in currently published British fiction, whose US peers would be Robert B Parker’s Boston PI, Spenser, or Elvis Cole, the PI creation of Robert Crais. His pitch-black mean streets leave other British crime writers in the dull grey mist, and the crisp, cliché-free, lively and cutting narrative, great sex, mayhem and dialogue and memorable one-liners ain’t half-bad as well.” The Tribune