Racial problematics in the novel by D.Kavanagh (J.Barnes) "Fiddle city"

The article analyses the second detective novel by Julian Barnes «Fiddle City» written by him under an assumed name Dan Kavanagh. Imitating the tradition of American «hard-boiled» detective fiction to shock the reader, Barnes, masked as his alter ego, appeals to one of the most provocative themes - ethnic and racial intolerance. Unfolding the acute matter of inter-ethnic relations the author enters the ironic polemics with other literary works. Depicting the inside of the exemplary English airport, he uncovers a grotesque reflection of the existing criminal world.