- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Orion; 1st edition edition (18 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575066962
- ISBN-13: 978-0575066960
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,965,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Three months Phil Gater has been bumming through France and Spain, lying low after pulling a petrol station robbery, and his return to England is marked by some old plonker in a white Transit who drives through a puddle and soaks him to the skin. Everybody laughs. Some welcome. So when he spots the Transit in the Railway Hotel car park it's only natural to give the driver some payback, rough him up a bit. Didn't mean to kill him, but doesn't care if he does. Trouble is, the old plonker, real name Stanley Bosser, turns out to be connected. To Frankie Bosser, a real bigtime hard man. When he comes home from his Italian hideaway and discovers Dad didn't die of natural causes, not surprisingly he's keen to discover who did him over . . .
About the Author
Born 1955, has worked as a bookseller at Murder One and currently at the Gamblers' Bookshop. Is a fast-rising singer-songwriter, has supported such notables as Iris DeMent, Christy Moore and Steve Forbert on UK tours
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A very unrewarding effort,
By A Customer
This review is from: Frankie Bosser Comes Home (Paperback)
I've had three stabs at reading this title and all have had me wondering what point there is continuing past the first thirty pages. The author's style is unfortunately too drab to interest and the characters drawn in such a way that time spent in their company is both depressing and wasteful. Mentioning Elmore Leonard in the same breath is not only ludicrous but wholly inaccurate as Leonard has immense style and knows exactly what he's doing. Its unfortunate that the previous reviews led me to expect much more. My copy is now on its way to join the others on the 'used' lists.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unusual, extraordinary and understated,
By Trish (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Frankie Bosser Comes Home (Paperback)
The reason this guy got great reviews in the Literary Review and Time Out, and lovely quotes from Ian Rankin and Val McDermid on this book is because it's an unusual, extraordinary, understated crime book in a sea of over-the-top, heist-of-the-century, cliché-ridden crime novels being published everywhere and, it seems, by everybody today.
In Raine's low-key world, criminals are never rehabilitated. Crime is a a way of life you slip into, and once in, you might slip back out, but inevitably, because the line has been crossed before, you'll succumb again. Crime is easy. It's only a fraction of an inch away from regular life. It is the difference between throwing the punch and not; pocketing the money or turning it in; or deciding to rob your local post office. And crime is something that people fall into everyday in small, almost imperceptible ways, with easy, miniscule, moral slips. This book is so deceptively simple. When the criminal Gator decides to engage in some gay, prison-out-of-prison-sex with his non-criminal male co-worker, it is only because it is a habit Gator can so easily slip back into. Prison colours everything once you've been inside. The after-sex comments are classic Raine-surreal, deadpan and ridiculous. If you only read mainstream, mass-market crime writers, you might be confused and unable to appreciate this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Franki Bosser,
By Anita Aushole "AA" (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Frankie Bosser Comes Home (Paperback)
This is a classic crime fiction novel from the British author, Jerry Rainewho has been compared to George Orwell by the Literary Review. The comparison is well-deserved as the novel provides necessary commentary on British "suburban white trash crime". It is a difficult thing to portray dark realism as comedy however, Raine's realism is so intricate as to provide a canvas for the hilarious to occur. Imagine a rookie criminal called Karl preparing for his house warming party, This is a surprisingly funny look at suburban crime and the characters that
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