‘Crusaders is an ambitious and convincing account of political chicanery, ideological quandaries and gang violence in 1990s Newcastle... We know from the book’s afterword that Kelly considers Dostoevsky his ‘Master’: in Stevie Coulson he comes closest to creating a Nietzschean anti-hero of his own... one of the great achievements of the novel [is] the depiction of a changing world in the north-east of England... In Crusaders, the north-east has found a new champion.’Daniel Starza-Smith, New Statesman
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