Money With Menaces

Wednesday 5 January is a black day in the police calendar of dockland Canton and its Art Deco resort of Ocean Beach. It dawns in freezing mist and icy roads. It ends with a vanload of drugs hijacked, two policemen dead, and gunfire on the motorway. DCI Sam Hoskins and his sergeant, Jack Chance, are meanwhile embroiled in a fruitless investigation of Billy Catte, seaside arcade proprietor and club-owner. In a political storm that pits zealous social workers against municipal gangsters, as well as police against revenge and kidnap, Hoskins holds the tenuous thread on which several lives depend ...

Product details

• Authors: Donald Thomas
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.07.2013
• EAN: 9781471904516
• ISBN: 978-1-4719-0451-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 10 mm x 10 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Murder Room
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, Classic crime and mystery fiction, The Murder Room; murder; chief inspector; police; gagsters