August 1966--the long hot summer of World Cup victory euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. The bewilderingly senseless crime shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself, and brings an end to the celebrations. It also marks a beginning for three men who have never met--and yet their fates are bound up with the event and its lasting consequences. Frank Taylor: an ambitious detective conflicted by career and conscience as he is drawn into the vice of corruption. Tony Meehan: a gutter-press journalist with a nose for nasty stories, scandals, and exposés as a cover for his own dark secrets. Billy Porter: a disaffected petty thief, haunted by a violent past, pushed over the edge to commit the ultimate crime. Like Mario Puzo and James Ellroy before him, Jake Arnott finds in the private realities of marginalized, desperate people a longing for redemption that transforms their discontent into the forces and truths that propel all our lives.

He Kills Coppers (Harvest Book)

Literature & Fiction

ARNOTT, Jake

Contemporary

Mariner Books

352p, paperback, this is a virtually a new copy without any traces of use.

The Long Firm

Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton

London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry's business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners on, performing menace while desperately trying to jump the counter into legitimacy. Five characters tell five tales that combine in an extraordinary narrative that is both an explosively paced thriller and a brilliantly imagined sociological and topographical portrait of sixties London.

Hodder&Stoughton Canada

August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and consequences that reverberate across three decades. An ambitious detective dragged into intrigues of corruption. A gutter press journalist with a nose for a nasty story. And a disaffected petty criminal pushed over the edge by a violent crime that haunts him. An epic story that looks at morality and corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.

He Kills Coppers

Soho Press, Incorporated

Arnott, Jake. Truecrime. First Edition. London, Sceptre, 2003. Octavo. 338 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist, author of The Long Firm and four other novels. He identifies as bisexual. However, in 2005 Arnott was ranked one of Britain's 100 most influential gay and lesbian people. It was declared that 'he is widely regarded as one of Britain's most promising novelists, quite regardless of sexuality'. Arnott was born in Buckinghamshire. Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at 17, he had various jobs including labourer, mortuary technician, artist's model, theatrical agency assistant, actor with the Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and appeared as a mummy in the film The Mummy. He came out as bisexual in his twenties. His sister, Deborah Arnott, is Chief Executive of the campaigning charity Action on Smoking and Health, ASH. (Wikipedia).

Truecrime

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truecrime: Jake Arnott

Genre Fiction

Sceptre

Johnny Come Home

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

It's 30 years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt.

The House of Rumour

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He Kills Coppers (Harvest Book)

The Long Firm

The Long Firm

He Kills Coppers

Truecrime

truecrime: Jake Arnott

Johnny Come Home

He Kills Coppers

Truecrime

The House of Rumour