Backlash
Roderic Duncan(Author)
Pocket Books (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-7434-5019-5 (ISBN)
Description
A tough, gritty police procedural set in Leicester The discovery of a butchered pig deliberately left in a local mosque is the catalyst which ignites the simmering racial tension in inner-city Leicester into open warfare. As the police come under fire for their inappropriate response, and the violence starts to escalate, mixed-race Inspector Marjorie (Mo) Akanbai finds herself made into a convenient scapegoat. In addition to watching her painstaking community-relations police work go up in smoke and with her emotional life in crisis, Mo is faced with a terrified Serbian asylum seeker, the brutal murder of an Asian factory owner, a gang of white supremacists, a counterfeit CD scam and an unplanned pregnancy.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 111 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7434-5019-5 (9780743450195)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Leicester-based Rod Duncan is a house-husband in his mid-thirties, whose wife teaches English to asylum seekers. Born in Wales, Rod Duncan moved to Taiwan in 1989, where he established an environmental education development programme on behalf of the Baha'i community. He returned to Leicester in 1993. BACKLASH is Rod Duncan's first novel.