Tough and tender, FAITHLESS reflects the cool edginess of London today. Like the London novelists that have preceded him--Patrick Hamilton, Iain Sinclair, Nick Hornby--John Williams captures the London of his time, a London where keeping the faith takes you nowhere fast. One critic writes, "This wrenching, tragi-comic novel shows how the blank generation became the blank cheque generation. . . . Williams takes the city to its limits".