The Hanging Club

From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a brilliant page-turning new thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing until the very last page.

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead. As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes. And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home...

“Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I’m a D.C. Max Wolfe fan.” – James Patterson


A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead.

As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes.

And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home ...

Praise forThe Hanging Club

“This is Parson’s best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent” (Daily Mail)
"I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing…This is brilliant stuff" (Peter James)

"Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic" (Lee Child)

‘Has all the ingredients and more: great plotting, great characters and at least two eye-widening twists I didn't see coming.’ (Sophie Hannah)

"If you haven’t already become a fan, the third outing for Max Wolfe is the perfect introduction to the London underworld that Tony Parsons has so vividly created…Wolfe’s cases couldn’t feel more of-the-minute" (GQ)

“A gripping page-turning book that will demand your full attention” (Irish Examiner)

“Fast paced and gripping” (Best Special Series)

“Parsons had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence” (Irish independent)
“A cleverly plotted page-turner, with touches of Cracker and Nordic Noir, all soaked in the atmosphere of London’s murky back-streets” (CSMA Club Life magazine)


Praise for Tony Parsons…

“It’s all as addictive as your favourite boxset…it contains more twists than a contortionist caught in a tornado” (The Shortlist)

"Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British...