- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: The Do-Not Press (2 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 190431631X
- ISBN-13: 978-1904316312
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 214,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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BRANT IS BACK! For the south-east London police Squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business, as usual. The Vixen - the most sensuous, crazy, female serial-killer ever - is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is dispatching her own gang and the cops, and has more than a passing interest in WPC Falls...Meanwhile...Porter-Nash is facing a serious health problem, nothing to do with his being gay, but everything to do with needles. PC McDonald finds himself looking down the wrong end of a .38...The career of a new addition to the Squad, WPC Andrews starts spectacularly but, as usual, she is about to discover that dynamite doesn't just mean explosive substances...Superintendent Brown is close to a coronary, and arresting the wrong man in a blaze of publicity is only the beginning of his problems...If the Squad survives this incendiary installment, they'll do so with barely a cop left standing.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Any new Bruen thriller is an event and this continuation of the White Trilogy/Blitz series is no exception. What I love about his books are the way Bruen gets under the skin of the characters without indulging in pages and pages of excess fatty dialogue and verbose descriptions. If you like your fiction short and snappy, then look no further: Bruen never uses ten words when one would do and this helps keep up a frenetic pace. Here a female bomber (aided by two awestruck male assistants) is after a huge ransom and the cops - especially Brant - don't like the way she's going about it. But the cops have a few problems of their own and the reader can only guess at how many survive the book and how. Brilliant stuff.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Picking up where last year’s Blitz left off, we once again join the ranks of southeast London’s ‘finest’ as The Vixen – a demented, sensual, and (in an ‘interesting’ twist,) female bomber lays waste to the nation’s capital.
Seducing a pair of inept brothers into doing her dirty work, she holds the city to ransom with absolutely no intention of sharing the profits. Meanwhile, the police are at each other’s throats, where backstabbing, whoring and heart attacks do their best to impede the investigation.
“Brant is back!” boasts the cover, which prepared me for some corruption a la Irvine Welsh’s Filth, but I have to say I was disappointed. For me, Bruen’s characters aren’t as real as Welsh’s, whilst the story never seems as gruesome as it believes itself to be. That said, Bruen definitely has a knack for rapid-fire storytelling with an abundance of incendiary devices. Entertaining as hell, but not half as nasty.
Seducing a pair of inept brothers into doing her dirty work, she holds the city to ransom with absolutely no intention of sharing the profits. Meanwhile, the police are at each other’s throats, where backstabbing, whoring and heart attacks do their best to impede the investigation.
“Brant is back!” boasts the cover, which prepared me for some corruption a la Irvine Welsh’s Filth, but I have to say I was disappointed. For me, Bruen’s characters aren’t as real as Welsh’s, whilst the story never seems as gruesome as it believes itself to be. That said, Bruen definitely has a knack for rapid-fire storytelling with an abundance of incendiary devices. Entertaining as hell, but not half as nasty.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Witchy Woman
29 Mar 2007
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If you're a fan of intricate crime novels - arcane forensics and brainy CSI babes running around in lab coats - Ken Bruen's brand of bare knuckled police work in London's seedy southeast side is probably not your cup of, um, formaldehyde. In fact, about the only tools the rude and crude but bone-breaking-ly efficient Inspector Brant and his misfit cronies employ in reducing London's crime rate are brass knuckles and .38's. Likewise, Bruen's prose is about a subtle as a sledgehammer - raw edged stories told without apology, refreshing free of political correctness and daring to offend.
"Vixen" is another gem of the author's twisted brilliance - a simple and stripped down story wrapped around Angie, as cold and heartless a female killer to hit the pages since Caleb Carr's "Angel of Darkness". Recently released from prison, the foxy Angie seduces a pair of small time criminal brothers who are soon blowing up buildings and extorting cops. Typical of Bruen, the plot is merely a convenient background frame the banter and antics of the southeast London's eccentric police force. As expected, this is a fast moving, hard hitting drama laced with black humor and told in Bruen's unique and quirky vernacular. He may not be for everyone, but he is fresh and uninhibited - that rare writer who eschews convention and sets his own course. If you haven't discovered Ken Bruen yet, "Vixen" is as good as any a place to start.
"Vixen" is another gem of the author's twisted brilliance - a simple and stripped down story wrapped around Angie, as cold and heartless a female killer to hit the pages since Caleb Carr's "Angel of Darkness". Recently released from prison, the foxy Angie seduces a pair of small time criminal brothers who are soon blowing up buildings and extorting cops. Typical of Bruen, the plot is merely a convenient background frame the banter and antics of the southeast London's eccentric police force. As expected, this is a fast moving, hard hitting drama laced with black humor and told in Bruen's unique and quirky vernacular. He may not be for everyone, but he is fresh and uninhibited - that rare writer who eschews convention and sets his own course. If you haven't discovered Ken Bruen yet, "Vixen" is as good as any a place to start.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Very well done.
9 April 2005
Format:Paperback
This is a continuation of White Trilogy/Blitz series. As always, there is Bruen's precise, spare writing, which remind me just a bit of McBain, which lets you get to know the characters without excessive description. He characters are not particularly likable, but always interesting. Not as dark as his Jack Taylor books but still very well done.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
terrific thriller
26 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
In London, Desk Sergeant Doyle receives the call about the bomb at the Paradise Cinema just before the explosion. The caller tells to cop to provide $300K or more bombs will ignite. The bomb was amateurish consisting of two sticks of dynamite and a simple timer with no one hurt. The second bomb a few days later proved a bit more sophisticated but still amateurish, but the extortion demand doubled.
While the cops like crazy Detective Sergeant Brant search for the bomber, Angie James and her associates the Cross brothers keep the blitz on by raising the ante with each new explosive incident. Angie also works on recruiting disaffected cop P.C. Falls upset for not receiving a promotion. As Brant and James head towards a collision, no one knows who of these two who feel so much alike yet think so differently than most people will survive.
The macabre fascinating Angie freshens the series with her inability to comprehend in terms of right or wrong but instead she feels life is for feeling good and to do that takes her into the realm of the criminal. Readers will enjoy her cat and mouse game with the cops with tough guy Brant her only competition. The story line is a combination of a police procedural enhanced by the sociopath subplot. Ken Bruen combines that into a terrific thriller starring two adversaries and a support cast burned by contact with either of them.
Harriet Klausner
While the cops like crazy Detective Sergeant Brant search for the bomber, Angie James and her associates the Cross brothers keep the blitz on by raising the ante with each new explosive incident. Angie also works on recruiting disaffected cop P.C. Falls upset for not receiving a promotion. As Brant and James head towards a collision, no one knows who of these two who feel so much alike yet think so differently than most people will survive.
The macabre fascinating Angie freshens the series with her inability to comprehend in terms of right or wrong but instead she feels life is for feeling good and to do that takes her into the realm of the criminal. Readers will enjoy her cat and mouse game with the cops with tough guy Brant her only competition. The story line is a combination of a police procedural enhanced by the sociopath subplot. Ken Bruen combines that into a terrific thriller starring two adversaries and a support cast burned by contact with either of them.
Harriet Klausner
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