Mr. In-Between

Jon Bennet is the perfect employee: efficient, completely loyal, conscientious to the last. But his job is murder – pure, cold and calculated. It is only when he meets an old friend that the life he has forged for himself amid the nameless, the faceless and the heartless is challenged and he is forced for the first time to face the consequences of his actions.

Cruel, powerful and decidedly unnerving, Mr In-Between is an uncomfortable portrait of a man who has so successfully erased his past that the stirring of love and friendship becomes an agony that is too much to endure.

'Cross’s portrayal of male friendship, the rituals of working-class life and the shock of bereavement is superbly done’
Observer

Mr In-Between takes on extremes – extremes of violence, drug-taking, super-strength lager drinking and love’
Independent on Sunday

‘Neil Cross applies a sharp satirical gaze to inarticulate male working-class culture . . . Cross’s portrayal of male friendship, the rituals of working-class life and the shock of bereavement is superbly done’
Observer

‘Mr In-Between takes on extremes – extremes of violence, drug-taking, super-strength lager drinking and love. Jon bennet, professional hit man, is in moral and emotional limbo, killing and maiming with a corrosive detachment. Jon’s work is all-consuming, his mates are sleazy, and Cross relishes the squalid detritus of their lives without exploiting it . . . When Jon is reunited with two old school friends, married with a child, he is overwhelmed by the bonds of family life and friendship. And the consequences are fatal for all concerned’
Independent on Sunday

‘Neil Cross applies a sharp satirical gaze to inarticulate male working-class culture . . . Cross’s portrayal of male friendship, the rituals of working-class life and the shock of bereavement is superbly done’
Observer

‘The precision f thought, psychological scope and massive inner crises he goes through as his friend is dragged deeper down justifies the hype around this first novel’
Esquire

‘A tightly written thriller that starts our dirty-realist and violent and then modulates into something rather different and thought-provoking, philosophical . . . Bleak, dark, with a distinctly modern-gothic imagination, and certainly readable’
Literary Review

‘Cross’s first novel displays a subtle mind grappling with a thrilling tale of perverse redemption’
Independent on Sunday

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