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 pointripe with humor, fast dialogue, and incisive wit, he offers entrance into the shocking and fascinating underbelly of a city and its inherent mysteries.
| ISBN: | 9780881507041 |
| Publication date: | 21st August 2006 |
| Author: | Bill James |
| Publisher: | Countryman Press Inc. an imprint of WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Harpur & Iles Mysteries |
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