Synopsis
Thriller of the Month in The Times and the Guardian.
Book of the Week in the Daily Telegraph.
The System can save you, or it can break you . . .
On the sixth of December 1993, a drug dealer named Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother’s lawn in South Central Los Angeles. A heroin addict witnesses the...
Details
10 December 2020432 pages
9781509843848Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Pacy, immersive and vivid, with strong characterisation and no punches pulled, this is an utterly riveting readLaura Wilson, Guardian
‘It is superb. It’s weighty, authentic to its bone marrow, questioning and thoughtful . . . I am in awe of Gattis’s plotting, characters, sense of pace and most of all his ear for language and diction and dialect . . . The System reinvigorates my idea of what fiction is capable of being.’David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas
Gripping, meticulously-researched and smartly-plotted, I devoured this brilliant novel over the course of a weekend.Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
The book is the fruit of six years’ research and there are all sorts of details that ring true . . . the most compelling courtroom drama I have read this year.Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph, Novel of the Week
