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"'Bill James is frontrunner among those who have tumed the police procedural on its head. His prime law-enforcers have a wicked style all of their own.' - John Coleman, Sunday Times; 'This author has a distinctive style, writes beautiful prose and insists the reader makes an effort (which will be rewarded)... The suspense is almost unbearable, the latent truth uncomfortable and the result haunting.'-Frances Fyfield; 'One of the kings of the dark hill.'-Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News."
The Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld has himself a doozy of a plot this time. Rival druglords Manse Shale and Panicking Ralphy Ember and their seconds-in-command, Alf Ivis and Beau Derek, are trying to decide whether Chief Inspector Richard Nivette has really crossed over to their side or is "doubling" to gather information for Chief Supt. Colin Harpur and his superiors, caustic Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles and mentally fading Chief Constable Mark Lane. Harpur, Iles, and Lane are wondering the same thing, since Nivette's bribe-taking was unsanctioned. Meanwhile, the body of minor drug-hustler Slow Victor turns up on a boat moored at the docks, then disappears. Whodunit-and who took it? Probably the same sods who murdered and disappeared Slow Vic's lover Finnane, a pol in the Home Office Ministry-and put a bullet in the head of Nivette. The crooks predictably fall out, with Ivis double-crossing Shale and Ralphy maneuvering against Ivis. Meanwhile, Lane desperately hopes his protege Nivette died a hero; Iles tries to protect one of his favorite tarts, who was working dockside the night of Slow Vic's murder; and Harpur once again handles the brunt of the investigation while dealing with burglary, ride-arounds, snitches, grieving widows, dithery Lane, chronically hostile Iles, his own teenaged daughters, and his college-age girlfriend. Nobody's better than James ("Panicking Ralph", p. 462, etc.) at showing pique escalating to bloody infighting among coppers as well as crooks. You'll need a scorecard to tally up the changing alliances-and you'll need to keep your head down to avoid the ubiquitous bullet. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The seventeenth novel in the 'savagely comic and expertly choreographed' Harpur and lles series. (quote Matthew Coady, Guardian) Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his amoral superior ACC Desmond lles face a political and personal dilemma when they suspect a police officer of taking bribes from underworld villains, panicking Ralphy Ember and Mansel Shale. Is Nivette doing some unauthorised undercover work, or is he really bent? And where has the body of Slow Victor gone? Trussed up in the cabin of a deserted boat one minute, gone the next. Harpur starts to make the connection, but not in time to save Nivette.
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"'Bill James is frontrunner among those who have tumed the police procedural on its head. His prime law-enforcers have a wicked style all of their own.' - John Coleman, Sunday Times; 'This author has a distinctive style, writes beautiful prose and insists the reader makes an effort (which will be rewarded)... The suspense is almost unbearable, the latent truth uncomfortable and the result haunting.'-Frances Fyfield; 'One of the kings of the dark hill.'-Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News."
The Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld has himself a doozy of a plot this time. Rival druglords Manse Shale and Panicking Ralphy Ember and their seconds-in-command, Alf Ivis and Beau Derek, are trying to decide whether Chief Inspector Richard Nivette has really crossed over to their side or is "doubling" to gather information for Chief Supt. Colin Harpur and his superiors, caustic Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles and mentally fading Chief Constable Mark Lane. Harpur, Iles, and Lane are wondering the same thing, since Nivette's bribe-taking was unsanctioned. Meanwhile, the body of minor drug-hustler Slow Victor turns up on a boat moored at the docks, then disappears. Whodunit-and who took it? Probably the same sods who murdered and disappeared Slow Vic's lover Finnane, a pol in the Home Office Ministry-and put a bullet in the head of Nivette. The crooks predictably fall out, with Ivis double-crossing Shale and Ralphy maneuvering against Ivis. Meanwhile, Lane desperately hopes his protege Nivette died a hero; Iles tries to protect one of his favorite tarts, who was working dockside the night of Slow Vic's murder; and Harpur once again handles the brunt of the investigation while dealing with burglary, ride-arounds, snitches, grieving widows, dithery Lane, chronically hostile Iles, his own teenaged daughters, and his college-age girlfriend. Nobody's better than James ("Panicking Ralph", p. 462, etc.) at showing pique escalating to bloody infighting among coppers as well as crooks. You'll need a scorecard to tally up the changing alliances-and you'll need to keep your head down to avoid the ubiquitous bullet. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The seventeenth novel in the 'savagely comic and expertly choreographed' Harpur and lles series. (quote Matthew Coady, Guardian) Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his amoral superior ACC Desmond lles face a political and personal dilemma when they suspect a police officer of taking bribes from underworld villains, panicking Ralphy Ember and Mansel Shale. Is Nivette doing some unauthorised undercover work, or is he really bent? And where has the body of Slow Victor gone? Trussed up in the cabin of a deserted boat one minute, gone the next. Harpur starts to make the connection, but not in time to save Nivette.
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