Robin Hood isn’t the swashbuckling, bow-wielding hero of English folklore, he’s a PTSD-afflicted World War II veteran living in 1960s London. When the million pounds he has raised to help regenerate the poverty-stricken East End is stolen, Robin is determined to get it back… even if it means going after John Prince, the city’s most ruthless and powerful crime boss.
“It feels like pretty much everyone has had a crack at doing a Robin Hood adaptation at one point or another – films, novels, graphic novels, TV shows,” says writer Andy Winter. “So, I wanted to do something rather different with mine and Mick’s version; something that used ideas and characters from the original Robin Hood stories but totally reimagined them, sent them tumbling into an entirely new setting.
“What we’ve ended up with is Robbing Hood, a hardboiled crime story set in the gangland London of the 1960s; a glamorous, gritty, grubby world in which decency and kindness are dirty words. Hopefully our book surprises people.”