Cold Fire, Calm Rage
Publisher: bluechrome publishing
Published: April 2007
Place of publication: UK
Copyright date: June 2004
Description: An ex-boxer turned bodyguard finds himself out of his depth and struggling to survive double-crosses by London gangsters and manipulation by European criminals in a thriller that owes as much to the noirish world of Chandler, as it does to the underworld of London town.

'Write what you know' is always what they tell you. But sometimes it's hard to know where the fiction separates from the reality. Cold Fire, Calm Rage is such a story and in it Joe Stein produces a gritty realism that leaves many others for dead. This is not a glamorised gangster story. This is how it is. 

"A satisfyingly gritty thriller" - The Big Issue

"A wonderful book…vivid scenes…depth and substance" - Crimespree Magazine
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