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What the critics say

A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London and a beguiling bastard of a hero
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[Belsey has] got to be London's coolest cop... Harris has plundered London's underworld for his richly plotted and unusual detective series... It's heady stuff
- Daily Mail

Thrills, spills and fine writing
- Daily Telegraph

The book we have been waiting for without knowing we were
- Evening Standard

Suspend your disbelief and hang on to your hat, and you'll have a whale of a time
- Guardian

With a seasoned author's skill and a cabbie's encyclopedic knowledge of London's every nook and cranny, debut novelist Oliver Harris tells a pacy tale firmly rooted in the credit-crunched modern world. A blistering start to a promising new crime series
- Short List

The story works as a thriller but it's also a very entertaining read, all the more because the locations are so precisely described. It gives a new meaning to the expression 'Hampstead novel'
- Literary Review

The Hollow Man is another great debut novel you cannot afford to miss!
- Crimesquad

Grittily specific on London, its denizens and its interlopers, this debut is the first of a series, and, if its climax - a Stansted Airport spectacular - is anything to go by, worth keeping an eye on
- Time Out

Fast and furious
- Times Literary Supplement

This is an astonishingly good first novel. Its plot is original, its dialogue lively, and in DC Belsey- the man who can't make up his mind whether he's a corrupt slacker or a dedicated detective and seems cursed to be both at once- it has a protagonist who truly stands out from the crowd
- Morning Star

Credible and relentlessly fast-paced, this is an outstanding start
- Daily Mail

I am engrossed in Oliver Harris's The Hollow Man, which is sublimely rude about the capital and extremely well written
- Evening Standard

A plot that twists and turns like the back streets of Kentish Town: this is a cracker of a debut by local boy Oliver Harris
- Camden New Journal