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The Hunters (The Stanton brothers series) [Kindle Edition]

Martin Stanley (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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The Stanton brothers have their lives well mapped out. They steal money from villains and give it to… well, themselves. They have it easy. Or they would if it wasn’t for the various scumbags who come at them with fists, knives, guns…

So when a disgruntled woman tells them about a half-million of undeclared cash in her ex-husband’s safe they think they’ve got it made. And when she tells them he runs a regular high-stakes poker game with some of Teesside’s most colourful villains they think they’ve died and gone to Heaven.

But when the job goes wrong, it turns out it’s not Heaven they’re in, but Hell. They’re left hunting the underworld for the money armed only with some well-aimed quips… and knuckledusters… and nailed-spiked baseball bats… oh, and some guns.

It’s time to get back what doesn’t belong to them…

The Hunters is crime fiction with bite. It mixes bone-crunching action with a motley crew of Teesside villains, adds in some healthy doses of bleak black humour and serves it up at a furious pace. It would be criminal to miss it…

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 287 KB
  • Print Length: 124 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0070OZED2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #134,966 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting and entertaining 1 July 2012
By Cordelia Reardon
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I loved this story. It was very exciting and the characters kept me entertained all the way through. The story serves up a significant amount of humour but you are never allowed to forget that this is a crime thriller. The darker revelations towards the end leave me wondering how creative the Stantons will get with their violent methods when they are driven by more than just their desire for personal gain.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Punchy and compelling 18 Mar 2012
By James Sharman
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After reading Martin's first book, The Gamblers, I was looking forward to another gritty noir - The Hunters is quite a bit more than that. It's much shorter, but that's a plus point in this case, as the plot unfolds at a fair lick, which is fitting for the action happening within, it builds to a crescendo, smashes you in the face, and then leaves you wanting more. Violent and graphic in parts, but with a dark humourous edge that keeps you hooked until the end. I'm really looking forward to more from the Stanton Brothers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty brit urban crime..similar to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 17 Feb 2012
By Cheryl M-M TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Very gritty urban brit crime story, which reminded me of the films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch. It has a fair amount of violence, nothing over the top graphic and quite a lot of swearing, as you would expect from this type of story. The writer also manages to slip a subtle level of witty humour into the layers of the storyline, often so fast it is barely discernible. I enjoyed it and it was almost a five star occasion, except for one thing. They laughed too much. Now and again in certain situations it was right on the button, but in others I think the writer should have opted for more of his witty repertoire instead of using the laughter as a bridge. Other than that it was a cracking read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Hunters 1 Jun 2013
By Stevie B
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A nasty violent tale of robbery, double, triple and quadruple-cross, revenge, retribution and gorgeous Teeside women.No idea how accurate any of these things might be, I've never been there and I'm certainly not going after reading this.
The Stanton brothers are in way over their heads as they manage to vex pretty much every major crime figure in the North of England.
The story zips along at high speed, no flowery prose or tedious description to get in the way, but it's not just a slaughterfest. There's plenty of humour here, even though it's usually at someone else's rather nasty misfortune.Mr Stanley writes well, none of the jarring clunkiness you might find elsewhere.
The narrator seems just about the smartest guy in the book, which is just as well, as his henchmen are alarmingly dim, though very useful when violence is required.
Not one to read to your young daughter as a bedtime story by any means, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Mr Stanley is a definite talent, and the Stanton brothers are characters with plenty of mileage left in them.....unless the contracts out on them curtail their activities.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hard hitting crime thriller 25 May 2013
By K. Nixon
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Rose Bennett is a woman with a grudge. Her ex-husband, Mike McGarvey, is a car dealer with a variety of very dubious connections and half a million pounds tucked away in a safe. It’s money no-one knows about, or so he thinks.

Rose believes she was cheated in their divorce settlement so she approaches an old school friend and local Teesside criminal, Stanton, to rob McGarvey. It’s planned to occur when he’s having one of his regular poker games with several criminal friends. For Stanton there’s some money in it and the potential of a grateful Rose.

It should be simple, but it isn’t…

The take down goes well, the aftermath doesn’t and the Stanton’s get ripped off. Rose finds out and threatens the brothers – recover the cash or she’ll put Raffin onto them, a man so bad he scares even them.

This is a very good, fast moving, at times violent story with a range of excellent characters, the latter being the strongest aspect of The Hunters.
There’s the Stanton’s themselves, tough guys, one clever, one the muscles. Rose, stunning and alluring, is a dichotomy – she was jailed for attacking a girl with a high-heeled shoe and killed another girl in prison. Is she redeemed? Or just pretending?

There’s a litany of bad guys – Hollis, Eddie Miles and Raffin to name but a few. All well painted, all evil in their own way. One intriguing aspect - the author doesn’t reveal the Christian name of either Stanton brother. It works well.

The Hunters is written in the first person by the narrator - Stanton himself - delivering an immediacy to the plot. It clips along at a fair pace, the brothers drawn into one problem after the other. The prose is terse and Stanton’s character shines through in the language.... Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sick puppy 5 April 2012
By P. Reuben
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I must confess I am a friend of the author and as such was coerced into reading The Hunters (paperback version), and was rather surprised that my gruff, knuckledragging mate was able to craft a genuine page-turner with intriguing twists and witty bon-mots. Granted, everyone seems to have a biting quip to hand, even if they're an 80-year-old law abiding pensioner that's just been beaten to a pulp by a hulking 6'4" boxer from Teeside*
(*This event is not in any book, ever)
Knowing Mr Stanley, the violence did not surprise me. Neither did the extremely strong and inappropriate language (you should hear him ordering a nice iced bun on a balmy Saturday afternoon), or the multitude of morally dubious and utterly selfish characters that pervades his universe of scum.
But surprised I was. I would recommend this book to maniacs, and lovers of thrillers everywhere.
Please can you let my Mum go now, Martin?
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