From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a brilliant page-turning new thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing until the very last page.

“Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I’m a D.C. Max Wolfe fan.” – James Patterson


A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead.

As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes.

And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home ...

Praise for The Hanging Club

“This is Parson’s best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent” (Daily Mail)
"I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing…This is brilliant stuff" (Peter James)

"Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic" (Lee Child)

‘Has all the ingredients and more: great plotting, great characters and at least two eye-widening twists I didn't see coming.’ (Sophie Hannah)

"If you haven’t already become a fan, the third outing for Max Wolfe is the perfect introduction to the London underworld that Tony Parsons has so vividly created…Wolfe’s cases couldn’t feel more of-the-minute" (GQ)

“A gripping page-turning book that will demand your full attention” (Irish Examiner)

“Fast paced and gripping” (Best Special Series)

“Parsons had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence” (Irish independent)
“A cleverly plotted page-turner, with touches of Cracker and Nordic Noir, all soaked in the atmosphere of London’s murky back-streets” (CSMA Club Life magazine)


Praise for Tony Parsons…

“It’s all as addictive as your favourite boxset…it contains more twists than a contortionist caught in a tornado” (The Shortlist)

"Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing" (Daily Mail)

“Tense…with a dose of dry wit” (The Daily Express)

“A taut always engaging thriller” (The Sun)

“I put my life on hold while I was reading because I couldn't tear myself away from the gripping story... It's complicated, brutal but Tony Parsons has managed to weave the brutality into a truly brilliant story” (Bestselling Crime Thrillers)

“It's a brilliant crime novel, a thrilling procedural. Max Wolfe is a wonderfully endearing character, smart and tough and vulnerable, and with Scout (and Stan too) Tony has created so much warmth and tenderness, in a world, a genre, so often devoid of it. His research is wide, deep, impeccable - from forensics to the psychology, procedure to protocol. And boy does he know how to create suspense, and convincing plot lines, which snake and weave, and surprise right until the very end. This is a complex, shocking, very contemporary story, told with utter conviction and authority. I was hooked from page one. Crime writing has a brilliant new star” (Henry Sutton)

“Sometimes, rarely, you know from the first chapter or so of a novel that you're in the hands of a master story teller. In the case of Tony Parsons…we know this within the first few pages. A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling (and wrenching) portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must-read" (Jeffery Deaver)

“Superbly crafted crime drama that grips from start to finish” (The Sunday Post)

“Fast paced and gripping” (The Scotsman)

‘[Tony Parsons'] writing pedigree is first class. It shows in this terrific thriller, and Max Wolfe is a class act, a brilliant character that has to feature again ... Absolutely stunning!’ (Books Monthly)

I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing and I'm really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff.

Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.

Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing.

A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must read.

This is Parson’s best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent for sensing the zeitgeist.

If you haven’t already become a fan, the third outing for Max Wolfe is the perfect introduction to the London underworld that Tony Parsons has so vividly created. While expertly playing with the classic tropes of the detective genre, Parsons folds in live-streamed vigilante justice and a social media campaign to bring back the death penalty – meaning Wolfe’s cases couldn’t feel more of-the-minute

Had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence.

A cleverly plotted page-turner, with touches of Cracker and Nordic Noir, all soaked in the atmosphere of London’s murky back-streets

Fast paced and gripping

A gripping page-turning book that will demand your full attention

If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you

Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer

Thought-provoking novel

When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way

I loved it; it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since

As awesome as it is compulsive

What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it

A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia

Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now

A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story

Frenetic sci-fi novel

Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything

One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking

Electrifying

It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it

This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read

The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex

An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman

This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves

The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions

In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe

It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss'

Mina's insight into the wellsprings of violence is terrifyingly acute and her eye for period detail is unsurpassed. A bravura reimagining of 1950s Glasgow

Mina’s recent novel The Long Drop…is her most interesting work

An atmospheric recreation of a vanished Glasgow…and a compelling exploration of the warped criminal mind. A Mina masterpiece

One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years.

One of the most fiercely intelligent of crime writers