All Involved is a symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn’t judge. It swallowed me whole.

Do not resist All Involved. It’s the most compelling, moving, shocking and world-expanding novel you’ll read all year; it sucks you in, then spits you out, permanently changed. I loved it with a frankly scary evangelical zeal.

All Involved is a monumental achievement. Ryan Gattis takes the reader into the broken, outraged heart of Los Angeles during the `92 riots and doesn’t blink once at what he finds there.

Corrosive, timely, vividly realized scenes of urban warfare and thwarted dreams by a writer who clearly knows his subject: the netherworld of Los Angeles in the early 1990’s.

All Involved is an astounding, vital novel. LA riots, 1992, brought to life with scorching intensity and empathy

Full of brutality with flashes of tenderness, this is an adrenaline-fulled, roller-coaster ride of a novel. Hold on tight.

All Involved is a high-octane, polyphonic narrative that hit me with the force of a nuclear strike. It is a scorching, bowl-along book with fierce integrity and I heartily recommend it to all who like compelling committed fiction

Shocking, visceral and humane, All Involved is a perfectly-paced, heart-breaking portrait of a city tearing itself apart. Gattis has created characters who live on in the imagination long after you have read the final page.

A tour de force . . . without glamorising his subject, there’s a lyricism in the vernacular and street language that makes it hard not to be moved . . . a powerful work of fiction