- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: Pen Press Publishers (10 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904754546
- ISBN-13: 978-1904754541
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,303,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mick Habergham enjoys the nightshift; patrolling the midnight hours when the world is asleep and police work simple. Sunday night should be quiet but, as his mind wrestles with divorcing Angela, it will prove to be anything but.
From the mad knifeman of Hill Top Hostel to the most inept suicide attempt at the House of Pain, Mick will face all manner of obstacles to a peaceful night. If it isn't Marak Vargo or Booger Smith, it will be the tragic pensioners of Maple Court or the battle at The Alex Public House.
Midnight ruins so many lives. Tonight one will threaten Mick's own. If he wants a happy retirement he will first have to walk through fields of heartache and survive the ruins of midnight.
From the mad knifeman of Hill Top Hostel to the most inept suicide attempt at the House of Pain, Mick will face all manner of obstacles to a peaceful night. If it isn't Marak Vargo or Booger Smith, it will be the tragic pensioners of Maple Court or the battle at The Alex Public House.
Midnight ruins so many lives. Tonight one will threaten Mick's own. If he wants a happy retirement he will first have to walk through fields of heartache and survive the ruins of midnight.
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This is an entertaining, sometimes sad, and often amusing drama that follows the fortunes of policeman Mick Habergham as he works the final night shift of the week.
Set in a single night, the story is nevertheless rich in events and characters so that it moves at a far from Sunday-night pace. Campbell's first-hand knowledge informs the story and gives it a gritty realism that add's to the night's tensions. A fine narrative style, which is fairly simple and direct. "Through the Ruins of Midnight is good absorbing stuff - read and read again."
Set in a single night, the story is nevertheless rich in events and characters so that it moves at a far from Sunday-night pace. Campbell's first-hand knowledge informs the story and gives it a gritty realism that add's to the night's tensions. A fine narrative style, which is fairly simple and direct. "Through the Ruins of Midnight is good absorbing stuff - read and read again."
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A fictional taste of police life,
By Chris High "Chris H" (Wirral, Merseyside,England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Through the Ruins of Midnight (Paperback)
Through The Ruins Of Midnight may very well have created a new sub-genre - True-Fiction Crime - as it relates individual tales that bypasses serial killers, bank heists and kidnappings to concentrate on those crimes that nonetheless devastate peoples lives on a daily basis; the domestics, the suicide attempts and the tragedy of loss. Colin Campbell's second novel - but debut in the world of crime - is like a breath of fresh air. Having been a serving police officer, the author draws characters and situations so well it makes The Bill look even more pedestrian than it actually is.The pace is relentless and the scenarios are so filmic it is almost possible to see the events take place. Ham is such a likeable character that a reader might actually enjoy being pulled up by him so that they could pass the time of day. That Campbell has drawn from experience is obvious, but he has done so with such clarity and precision it never enters the realms of being a lecture on morality.This is an excellent book that both informs and entertains, but never preaches and should be read by anybody with an interest in the pressures faced by the modern day police officer.
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