Faces - Martina Cole

Faces is the fourteenth novel by the successful and critically acclaimed novelist Martina Cole. I have said in previous reveiws how much I love Martina Coles novels and I have read everyone of them. The last two though, Faces and The Business, I don't believe are as good as the earlier novels. As with all her novels Martina Cole is again writing about what she knows best, the London criminal underworld. It is set in the heart of London's gangland, contains thirty two chapters and is seperated into four different books. The story begins in the seventies but continues right up until the present day, with each of the books focusing on different stages in ...  Read the complete review

Faces is one of fourteen gangland novels written by the bestselling British author Martina Cole. Danny Cadogan is a face, forced to become one at just fourteen when his father abandoned his family to the wrath of the debt collectors rather than face up to the fact that he couldn't pay up. Danny realises that the responsibility to provide for his family has fallen onto his shoulders and goes to work in the scrap yard of an old family friend. He turns the scrap yard into an incredibly profitable business. When Danny's father eventually returns, Danny hands him over to the debt collectors without any regrets and so the story spreads of how ...  Read the complete review