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He Kills Coppers
by Arnott, Jake
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition
- ISBN 10
- 034074880X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340748800
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London : Sceptre, 2001. First Edition. Soft cover. Fair Condition. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Pages faintly browned on edges Edges browned Cover is worn with bumped corners and edge wear and some Jake Arnott's 'mesmerizing, brilliant' (New York Times Book Review) second novel, a literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state.
During the long hot summer of 1966, a senseless murder shocks the nation and brings the World Cup euphoria to an abrupt end. Yet it marks a beginning for three men, who are inextricably linked to the crime and its consequences: an ambitious detective struggling with his conscience; a tabloid journalist with a nose for a nasty story; and a disaffected thief, haunted by his violent past.
Spanning three decades of profound social change, this gripping novel explores corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.
During the long hot summer of 1966, a senseless murder shocks the nation and brings the World Cup euphoria to an abrupt end. Yet it marks a beginning for three men, who are inextricably linked to the crime and its consequences: an ambitious detective struggling with his conscience; a tabloid journalist with a nose for a nasty story; and a disaffected thief, haunted by his violent past.
Spanning three decades of profound social change, this gripping novel explores corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.
Synopsis
August 1966--the long hot summer of World Cup victory euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. The bewilderingly senseless crime shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself, and brings an end to the celebrations. It also marks a beginning for three men who have never met--and yet their fates are bound up with the event and its lasting consequences. Frank Taylor: an ambitious detective conflicted by career and conscience as he is drawn into the vice of corruption. Tony Meehan: a gutter-press journalist with a nose for nasty stories, scandals, and exposés as a cover for his own dark secrets. Billy Porter: a disaffected petty thief, haunted by a violent past, pushed over the edge to commit the ultimate crime. Like Mario Puzo and James Ellroy before him, Jake Arnott finds in the private realities of marginalized, desperate people a longing for redemption that transforms their discontent into the forces and truths that propel all our lives.
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54284
- Title
- He Kills Coppers
- Author
- Arnott, Jake
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 034074880X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340748800
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 327
- Keywords
- Crime, Detective and Thrillers British crime, Arnott, crime fiction
- X weight
- 350.000 kg
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
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