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After the Fire - Karen Campbell

Description: ISBN 0340935618 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Karen Campbell / Edition: First Edition / Hardcover / 480 Pages / Book is published ... more

After the Fire - Karen Campbell ... 2009-03-19 by Hodder & Stoughton

Newest Review: ... entering prison, the book is divided into two halves - Before and After. These refer to events leading up to Jamie's ... more

... sentencing and then what happens once he is imprisoned. I thought separating the story in this way worked particularly well. I liked finding out what had happened on the night of the shooting and all the chaos that ensued. I thought this was particularly well written and it was easy to imagine how orders could have become confused as the tension escalated. Even more fascinating though was to witness Jamie's behaviour afterwards as he struggled to come to terms with what he had caused to happen as well as the slow realisat...more

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After the Fire - Karen Campbell: Out of the ashes! (723 words)
by - written on 09/07/09 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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When I first started reading After the Fire, I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it particularly when the very first page launched into quite graphic and hostile descriptions of prison life which did not make very easy reading. However, I am so glad I stuck with this book as it developed into a fantastic read with many dimensions that all contributed to my enjoyment. We learn very early on that Jamie Worth, a newly qualified firearms officer, is on his way to prison. It turns out that he has been convicted of murder having shot a teenage girl whilst on duty. Already traumatised by what has happened, his world is turned upside down when it seems that the ... Read the complete review

Gritty and gut-wrenchingly real (413 words)
by - written on 26/04/09 (Very useful, 122 readings)
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Jamie is a newly qualified Firearms Officer with Glasgow police when he gets a shout to an incident in a south side tenement. At the scene he finds a young inexperienced Inspector and with no tactical firearms advisors available is left to go in with just one other firearms officer. In a scene that is tense, fraught with confusion and lacking control a young girl is shot dead, by Jamie. Suddenly propelled into the media glare and with the public baying for blood, Jamie and his family face the harsh reality as the system turns against him, the colleagues he thought he could trust one by one turn their backs on him, the force he saw as his family hang him out to ... Read the complete review