
Set in Brixton 20 years after the race riots The Dirty South" follows the adventures of Bricky teenager Dennis Huggins as he drifts into the easy dangerous life of the shotta
- or drug dealer
- & discovers that hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends have no guidance other than that offered by their fellow shottaz or the dubiously motivated black Muslims. Wheatle brilliantly evokes the temptations of the thug life for young black men growing up in Londons Dirty South
- a fast compelling novel that offers no easy answers but refuses to shy away from asking the difficult questions."