Crime and Punishment
$44.34
- Paperback
704 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2009
Summary
In 1951 the Festival of Britain marks a new golden age of hope and prosperity for the country. Things are certainly looking up for the criminal elite who run the East End.
For Jack, a draft-dodger with aspirations to be a champion boxer, there’s easy money to be made for providing a bit of muscle. Meanwhile his sister Kath must keep secret the fact that she killed their father to protect her son, Brian, from the abuse she experienced as a child. Brian is so traumatised by witnessing t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849160124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849160120 |
| Author: | G.F. Newman |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 185mm x 40mm |
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“For readers who can think of no more delicious treat than a London underworld saga of murder and mayhem … Newman knows all the moves and lands narrative punch after punch . .
‘For readers who can think of no more delicious treat than a London underworld saga of murder and mayhem… Newman knows all the moves and lands narrative punch after punch… Bring on the sequel - soon.’ Independent. * Independent *
‘A Sopranos-meets-Eastenders saga that consumes lowlife and highlife alike… an unashamedly unselfconscious bath in a wholly English underworld’ The Times. * The Times *
About The Author
G.F. Newman
Gordon Newman is a writer and television producer. In the 1970s, he created the British television show, Law and Order, and in more recent years, Judge John Deed and New Street Law. He is married and lives in London.
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