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i didn't realise this was the snooker player, writing this, the name didn't register at first, just as well cos i would have passed the book over thinking there would have been too much about the sport in it . His mother disappeared when he was sixteen; his father’s in jail for armed robbery; and he owes rent on the Soho snooker club he inherited to one of London’s toughest gangsters.
Fairly functional crime thriller in which a young nightclub owner has to prove the innocence of his younger brother who has been accused of murder.For the most part, though, it just settles into the background, and the book itself mostly follows what happens when our protagonist’s brother Jack wakes up in his house with blood everywhere and no recollection of how he got there. Not the biggest fan of snooker myself, I stayed listening cos the show is entertaining whatever they talk about. His mother disappeared when he was sixteen; his father's in jail for armed robbery; and he owes rent on his Soho snooker club to one of London's toughest gangsters.
Naturally enough I was being sent several recommendations of other sport stars' literary output, urged to pursue their folly in much the same vein, but it was only when alerted about the release of Ronnie O'Sullivan's first novel Framed that I decided to descend from my ivory tower and dip back into another's work. THE SUNDAY TIMES on RUNNING Like a lot of shy people, he can look arrogant and aloof when he is performing, while underneath there's turmoil. Didn't know what to expect from this book , but was very pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it. or the one that describes a vanquished hard man "slithering down the wall like a stain" or atmospheric nods like "the pink evening sky was darkening into blood. I have been a big fan of Ronnie O'Sullivan for many years as a snooker player, if he keeps producing books like this then I will become a fan of Ronnie as an author too.We slammed straight into Jack's story head on, introducing the main players as they connected with the story being told. There was even a reference to him putting on an event and getting some well-known players in, like The Rocket. Well, his perceived innocence, he says he is, despite the mountain of evidence stacking up to the contrary.
Taking many elements from Ronnie's own life, it is the story of Frankie James, a young lad in 1990s Soho, who dodges gangsters and underworld crime to run a snooker club in the absence of his father (in prison for armed robbery) and his mother (who ran off years before). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Ronnie's own life story is fascinating, and as a template for a character, Ronnie himself is a great place to start. But in the dog-eat-dog underworld of 1990s Soho, is he tough enough, and smart enough to come out on top? The last few chapters could almost have been written by Dick Francis: Most of the loose ends are tied up, a good person with a bad reputation is rescued, and so forth.