Top Banana
Published on 14. May 2013
160 pages
978-1-4719-0302-1 (ISBN)
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mandy Walsh has been gunned down in the street, caught in the crossfire between rival drug gangs. For Chief Constable Lane there is only one option - infiltrate the drug syndicates and rid his patch of this menace.
Unfortunately, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles has a better idea: let the gangland police itself in return for a few 'favours'.
As his superiors battle it out, Detective Chief Superintendent takes a closer look at Mandy's death. He learns the bullets that killed her were not fired by the warring gang. There was, it seems, a third gunman targeting Mandy...
'Comes off the page like electricity' Sunday Times
Unfortunately, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles has a better idea: let the gangland police itself in return for a few 'favours'.
As his superiors battle it out, Detective Chief Superintendent takes a closer look at Mandy's death. He learns the bullets that killed her were not fired by the warring gang. There was, it seems, a third gunman targeting Mandy...
'Comes off the page like electricity' Sunday Times
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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
0,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4719-0302-1 (9781471903021)
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Bill James (1929-) 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.
