Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London US Book 2)

by Ben Aaronovitch

The difference between stripping and burlesque, as far as I could tell, was class.

‘What’s the biggest thing you’ve zapped with a fireball?’ I asked. ‘That would be a tiger,’ said Nightingale. ‘Well don’t tell Greenpeace,’ I said. ‘They’re an endangered species.’ ‘Not that sort of tiger,’ said Nightingale. ‘A Panzer-kampfwagen sechs Ausf E.’ I stared at him. ‘You knocked out a Tiger tank with a fireball?’