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He Kills Coppers - Jake Arnott

 
Description: ISBN 0340961015 / Author: Jake Arnott / Genre: Fiction / A dazzling successor to The Long Firm August 1966, the long hot summer of World ... more
He Kills Coppers - Jake Arnott ... Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself.

Newest Review: ... too. I doo mean in the background though, this story revolves around crime not football. He Kills Coppers is told from the ... more

 ... perspectives of three characters: FRANK TAYLOR - a detective "itching to get on the Flying Squad." He considers himself a good thief-taker, and is happy to bend the odd rule now and again to nail known villains, but he soon finds himself out of his depth in a police force awash with corruption. This was a long time before the Police And Criminal Evidence Act, when freemasonry and 'hookeyness' were rife. Oh yes, the swinging sixties were also rather dodgy... TONY MEEHAN - a scuzzy, pervo jou...more

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Before becoming a successful novelist, Jake Arnott had a number of jobs. He was a mortuary technician a sign language interpreter and also an actor - his last part being the title role in The Mummy! Then in 1999 he was one of the subjects of a BBC2 documentary about writers trying to get published. His novel The Long Firm, which masterfully recreated the atmosphere of the underworld in swinging sixties London, was an instant success, and is going to be turned into a television series by the BBC sometime soon. The Long Firm centred around the activities of a gay gangster called Harry Starks who mixed with the real-life glitterati, and Arnott has used the ...  Read the complete review

 

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