Kilo 17
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2012
288 pages
978-1-4088-3337-7 (ISBN)
Description
A thrilling account from the front-line in the war against international drug smugglers, from a former Customs and Excise investigator
Kilo 17 gives the inside story of a close-knit Customs team during a major drugs investigation. As an Oxford-educated, former member of MI6, Harry is promoted straight over the heads of more experienced officers. But with no previous experience of the drugs world, the Kilos think they need Harry like a hole in the head.
But Harry sticks at the job and begins to make progress with his investigation into the affairs of Frank Davies, the local Mister Big. And in the long desperate hunt for evidence, involving a transit van smashing through the front window of an Indian restaurant, chance tip-offs, a moonlit search for a missing ex-SAS soldier, a dawn raid on a fortress-like country house and barely legal flights by light aircraft to Holland, the Kilos begin to chip away at Frank Davies's criminal empire.
Kilo 17 gives the inside story of a close-knit Customs team during a major drugs investigation. As an Oxford-educated, former member of MI6, Harry is promoted straight over the heads of more experienced officers. But with no previous experience of the drugs world, the Kilos think they need Harry like a hole in the head.
But Harry sticks at the job and begins to make progress with his investigation into the affairs of Frank Davies, the local Mister Big. And in the long desperate hunt for evidence, involving a transit van smashing through the front window of an Indian restaurant, chance tip-offs, a moonlit search for a missing ex-SAS soldier, a dawn raid on a fortress-like country house and barely legal flights by light aircraft to Holland, the Kilos begin to chip away at Frank Davies's criminal empire.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3337-7 (9781408833377)
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Harry Ferguson
Kilo 17
Book
05/2003
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€32.37
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Person
Harry Ferguson worked with Customs and Excise for eight years and is now a full-time writer.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 How to Leave a Secret Society
- 2 The Kilos
- 3 Van Hohn
- 4 Case Officer
- 5 The Chancers
- 6 The Chancers Return
- 7 Operation Krystal
- 8 The A2 Chase
- 9 Beer
- 10 The Drivers
- 11 The Participating Informant
- 12 Storms on the Horizon
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- Footnotes
- A Note on the Author
- eCopyright
