Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London #2)

by Ben Aaronovitch

‘You can’t die of jazz,’ said Dr Walid. ‘Can you?’

unless you want a personal credit rating lower than an Irish bank’s.

Times have changed

The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable.

There would be lots of phone-camera footage on the news that night from people with more media-savvy than brains.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time.

But London didn’t care. She never does when you leave her, because she knows for every one that leaves another two arrive.