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Snap Judgment: City of Tiny Lights
by Patrick Neate
By
Shailaja Neelakantan/NEW DELHI
Issue
cover-dated July 25, 2005
Tommy Akhtar, a "Paki-immigrant-Ugandan-Indian-Englishman"
and private detective in London, is hired by Melody, a black
prostitute who wants him to find her missing Russian flatmate.
Tommy's investigation leads him to a fiendish Saudi villain
who has sinister plans for London. It's a multiculti homage
to Raymond Chandler's 1930s detective Marlowe, without his stylized
sophistication. In contrast to Neate's Whitbread Award-winning
"Twelve Bar Blues," a bewitching tale spanning three
continents, "City of Tiny Lights" is more of a shambling
slog.
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