- Paperback: 185 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (14 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 033033042X
- ISBN-13: 978-0330330428
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 339,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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D, a courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London, decides to go it alone and disappears into the mean streets of Hackney carrying a kilo of white powder that his erstwhile friends are anxious to recover. But D's treachery will never be forgotten - or forgiven.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Yardie is a gripping modern day fictional gangster tale based on a young Jamaican immagrants rise from the streets of London to the top of the drug dealing underworld. Victor Headley has wrote this in such a manor it will, for anyone interested in fictional crime, keep you gripped from start to finish. Yardie is the first story in a 3 book series. The only downside is that victor has not yet wrote the forth!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
HEADLEY'S DEBUT is more interesting for its portrayal of London's Jamaican immigrant criminal subculture than it's straightforward tale of the rise and fall of one hood. Basically if you've seen Scarface, you'll know the story. Headley's authentic vision of the milieu, with vivid descriptions of the role of music and food in the immigrant community, is what makes it worth reading. The thick Jamaican patois gets a little hard to follow at times, but it's no harder than Trainspotting, once you get used to it. Other than the descriptive element, the writing and plotting is extremely elementary.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed reading this book. D was a guy that you just loved to hate. I spent the whole book unsure whether I wanted him to come out on top or end up in the hands of his enemies.
This is a good book that keeps you hooked until the very end. I collected the set (3 books)but in my enthusiasam to share the written word I lost them to book jackers (people who borrow but never return).
Buy this book if you like your gangsters with a CAPITAL G.
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This is without doubt the worst book I have ever read.
It amazed me that such a short book could contain so little. I found the plot to be predictable and tedious, the characters - to a man - caricatures and the use of language... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Mr. Simon J. Harpham
Boy Thim think you is Yardie?
What a Book, I'm not kidding that I don't read a awfull lot.
The day it arrived, I read 120 pages and finished the last 50 odd the next day. Read more
The day it arrived, I read 120 pages and finished the last 50 odd the next day. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2003 by D. A. Wade
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