EAST OF HOUNSLOW

Khurrum Rahman Loot.co.za (R263) Harper Collins

A SNAPPY debut from a native Pakistani who moved to England at the age of one and was then brought up in the badlands of Hounslow, west London and beyond.

Now in his early forties Rahman works as an IT officer, but that might well change with the publication of this riveting thriller.

The hero is a low-level Pakistani drug dealer who has been targeted by MI5 as a potential recruit to infiltrate the evolving terror groups in his community.

Reluctant at first, he is eventually persuaded after getting himself into a heap of trouble with his drug supplier.

Told with striking panache, it announces the arrival of a fine, fresh new thriller writer.