Hotbed
Published on 14. January 2014
160 pages
978-1-4719-0315-1 (ISBN)
Description
Drug barons Ralph Ember and Mansel Shale have co-existed peaceably for years, tolerated by Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles as a way of keeping violence off the streets. But times are changing.
In a downward spiral of paranoia and panic, Ember fears Shale has a plan to kill him and take over his firm - after all, one of his people has already been gunned down and nobody's taken the rap for it. Shale is about to remarry and has asked Ember to be best man. Iles and Detective Chief Constable Colin Harpur, alert to their potentially deadly double game, know that they have to act fast to avoid out-and-out carnage.
'Dazzles . . . a modern morality play of epic scope' Publishers Weekly
In a downward spiral of paranoia and panic, Ember fears Shale has a plan to kill him and take over his firm - after all, one of his people has already been gunned down and nobody's taken the rap for it. Shale is about to remarry and has asked Ember to be best man. Iles and Detective Chief Constable Colin Harpur, alert to their potentially deadly double game, know that they have to act fast to avoid out-and-out carnage.
'Dazzles . . . a modern morality play of epic scope' Publishers Weekly
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Series
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4719-0315-1 (9781471903151)
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Person
Bill James is the author of numerous thrillers and crime novels as well as a critical work on Anthony Powell. In 2006 he was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger award for the year's best crime novel for Wolves of Memory. His work is much loved and critically acclaimed; the Sunday Telegraph describes him as 'bruisingly good' and The Times as 'subtle and riveting to the last page'. He lives in his native South Wales.
