The Motive: Quick Reads 2021: Unabridged edition
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 . . .
Praise for the Jay Qasim series: -
”'Thrilling and immersive …violence, love, humour and razor-sharp observation keep the pages turning” - Sunday Times Crime Club
”'A timely addition to the new breed of socially committed British thrillers.” - Guardian
‘A brilliant thriller. You’d be mad not to buy this.’Ben Aaronovitch -
”'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
'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 -
”'A very funny, tense thriller…Think Four Lions meets Phone Shop” - Red