Runner up -Sci-Fi Now book of the year

The Game is Altered (2012)
In the near future, Lionel lives with his sick cat in the flat above Milk Street. Down below, CCTV cameras keep watch as the hustlers scheme and glassy-eyed girls disappear into the ‘adult heath centre’. Lionel slips deeper into an alternate reality, where his alter-ego Ludi begins a heroic quest in the MMORPG, CoreQuest.

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A smart, ultra-contemporary and … deeply questioning novel-cum-thriller about where we are going with our identities.”

Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror

Among Thieves (2009)
It’s 1984. Jez, a no-good 2 Tone loving Cov lad, and Jamaican Bas are drawn into a money laundering scam in Spain by two ambitious ex-university dealers, Andy and Pads. These middle-class wide-boys are locked in a feud of mysterious origin – chilly Pads has the upper hand and the money, while Andy has the charisma and the girls. But Andy takes a step too far when he sets up a deal with IRA gangsters and has to ask Pads to bail him out financially.

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Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

Mez Packer has triumphantly pulled off the trick of writing across the gender divide … The energy of the writing and the darkness of the story are reminiscent of Martin Amis, circa Dead Babies and Success – but it is better plotted. It’s a hard-edged story with plenty of tension and violence, but it has a heart, too. What starts out as a sour tale of grievance and revenge has an unexpectedly sweet and satisfying conclusion.

Brandon Robshaw, The Independent