Broken Faith
The Road to Redemption Series
Published on 1. November 2013
200 pages
978-1-909840-73-7 (ISBN)
Description
Ex-copper and 'fixer' for the Catholic Church Jimmy Costello is sent to Spain to investigate when a senior cleric is accused of being part of ETA, the armed Basque separatist movement. Given his usual missions, he's not entirely surprised when he finds himself implicated in a murder as soon as he lands in Santander, and remains calm as the evidence seems to point to an old gangland contact who has set himself up as a crime writer - but do old dogs really learn new tricks?
Despite the ongoing attentions of the local police, Jimmy's still not shaken - even when the bodies start to mount up - until the trail leads him to some surprising remainders of his violent London past ...
Despite the ongoing attentions of the local police, Jimmy's still not shaken - even when the bodies start to mount up - until the trail leads him to some surprising remainders of his violent London past ...
Reviews / Votes
Green introduces a terrifying paradox of a character - a God-fearing man running both sides of the law for profit. An ultra-hardboiled debut. * The Guardian *More details
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-909840-73-7 (9781909840737)
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11/2013
Accent Press Ltd
€29.91
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Person
James Green is well known as the author of the Jimmy Costello crime series, the first book of which, Bad Catholics, was short-listed for the 2009 Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards.
A prolific writer, James, who is now working on the second of the five-book series which begins with Another Small Kingdom, is married and lives in Nottinghamshire.
A prolific writer, James, who is now working on the second of the five-book series which begins with Another Small Kingdom, is married and lives in Nottinghamshire.
