- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Headline (10 Dec 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755345703
- ISBN-13: 978-0755345700
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 310,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Charlie Owen has been carving out a name for himself as the author of tough and pungent crime novels, and his upwards trajectory is continued with Two Tribes, a novel which delivers quite the same kind of punch as its predecessors. The time is the 1970s, and the police in north Manchester are girding their loins for a large scale riot as extremists line up for a major confrontation. Handstead New Town in north Manchester in at the epicentre of this potential flashpoint, and the beleaguered band of coppers are desperately formulating tactics. DCI Dan Harrison has a useful resource: the hooligan cops in uniform (who we met in previous books in the sequence), but he'll need everything he can call on to get through the most challenging policing problem of his career. And it's not as if he had limitless physical resources of his own to summon up -- he has been working round the clock, and is feeling the effects. Needless to say, the ordinary problems of crime in the area have not taken a holiday, and another major headache is a serial rapist who is cleverly eluding capture. Not to mention an outbreak of murderous violence among the retired, a persistent flasher and numerous other intractable problems; Dan Harrison has his work cut out for him.
Charlie Owen's publishers invoke both Life on Mars and The Sweeney on the jacket to give readers an idea of what they will find between the covers here, and these two references are canny subjects to mention; although Two Tribes is not a parodic as the former, we see a lot of the same kind of policing as we find in the Gene Hunt squad (with the same sardonic sense of humour on display), and the tough coppers of The Sweeney are hovering in the background. Charlie Owen was, of course, himself a policeman, and has personal experience of everything from the Poll Tax riots to football hooliganism. He's the perfect chronicler for the barely controlled mayhem that he delivers in his series of novels. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A kaleidoscope of unbridled moral mayhem. [Charlie Owen] narrates with a genuinely deft, distinctly nonregulation-issue wit." "--Daily Telegraph"
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
once again charlie Owen has written a brilliant book, this follows all of the others in the saga. this last one is both funny and sad, Charlie blends the humour and the sadness in just the right amounts. you would need to read the rest of the series to get a better understanding the background to the many characters in his book. it is really funny and follows the trials and tribulations of a motley group of cops who patrol the fictional northern town of Handstead. You feel all the humanity within his characters,its just so sad this is the last one , but we can live in hope that Charlie Owen might reconsider. Read this you will not regret it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ive had the pleasure to read all three previous books!! Two Tribes is again brilliantly written and the characters are again truely amazing!! You cant put the book down once you start. It starts nice and slow and builds to a brilliant ending!! Please dont put an end to such a wonderful group of characters Charlie!! Keep going!! Brilliant.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i now own all of the series, 4 books and they are so funny and riveting. its all about a shift of police officers in the late 70's to early 80's, back when they werent bogged down with paperwork, and didnt do the job for the money, just do yourself a favour and get all 4. you'll be chuckling for days
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Must read
Worked 2 weeks of night duty and read 3 of the books made me cry they are so funny. A real must have that you cant put down even when you should be working. Read more
Published 4 months ago by ness
Beautiful Ending
Having read the previous 3 after being introduced to Horse's Arse by my father, a colleague of the Author in Herts Police during the era, I found the final book a fitting end to... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Avid Reader
An excellent end to an excellent series.
The last in the Horses Arse series, and a worthy send off to Psycho, The Brothers, Pizza et al.
Excellent work Mr Owen.
Excellent work Mr Owen.
Published 16 months ago by Matt the Reader
truly excellent
As an ex-job who served through the 70's and early 80's I know D section personally, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Read more
Published 19 months ago by spud murphy
A Laugh!
As an ex policeman, these books do strike a cord, the humour is great and the stories or at least some of them must be at least a bit based on fact! Read more
Published 19 months ago by M. Mossman
70's policing
I wish I could write as humourously as Charlie. This is as close a tale of policing in the 70's as you're going to get. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Timbo
Excellent read
Probably of absolutely no interest to anyone unless they were coppers in the early/mid 70's working on the streets (and I mean working not just as a mobile uniform display). Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. N. J. Farmer
It's a shame and a joy at the same time.
This is a shame as in Mr Owen says in his foreword that it's the end of the saga, and a joy as in it's another blinding success. Read more
Published 20 months ago by DublinFats
Two Tribes
Absolutely brilliant, Charlie Owen - Genius. A fantastic conclusion to a series of books which will surely end up on the screen ... and I can't wait.
Published 20 months ago by Voice of Reason
A Great end to a great series...
All four have been a bit of a nostalgia trip for me growing up in North Manchester in the 1960's and 1970's. Read more
Published 22 months ago by P. Brooks
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