White City

<p><b>''I very much doubt I''ll read a better crime novel this year'' IAN RANKIN<br>''Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer'' CHRIS WHITAKER<br>''Crime writing of the highest quality'' DAILY MAIL</b><br><br><b>It''s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.</b><br>An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.<br><br>For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.<br><br>Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.<br><br>Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsav