Easy Streets

FOR YEARS Colin Harpur's dubious boss. Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, ran a questionable but practical arrangement with Mansel Shale and Panicking Ralph Ember, owner of the Monty Club: Iles would protect their businesses if they ensured peace on the streets. But the arrangement fails when violence erupts. After a small-time criminal's house is firebombed. leaving the owner and his daughter dead, mistrust and uncertainty pervade the formerly well-managed streets: more drug dealers emerge and competition grows. With the failure of a once mutually beneficial relationship between cops and criminals, a battle for survival ensues. Bill James is "a point--ripe with humor, fast dialogue and incisive wit, he offers entrance into the shocking and fascinating underbelly of a city and its inherent mysteries.

ISBN 039306042X   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780393060423 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher WW Norton & Co   Weight (grammes) 666 Imprint WW Norton & Co   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 250 Publication date 09 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 150 Library of Congress 2005047306   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

"Bill James transcends what can often be a stale mystery sub-genre to produce novels that are startling, achingly funny and sometimes wholly surreal. Essential reading."

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