The Take by Graham Hurley - ISBN: 9781409120063
Paperback
Grief, crime, and impossible choices collide in Portsmouth’s dark heart.

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2010

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Summary

DI Joe Faraday’s Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead, killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth’s surging crime wave.

And now the seemingly untouchable DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined: his wife has cancer. It’s inoperable and she has barely three months to live. Paul Winter has only one instinct - to lash out.

But there’…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781409120063
ISBN-10:1409120066
Author:Graham Hurley
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Orion
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:1 September 2010
Weight:272g
Dimensions:199mm x 154mm x 26mm
Series:Joe Faraday Novels
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Critics Review

An ambitious police procedural epic… a splendid achievement– GUARDIAN

An ambitious police procedural epic… a splendid achievement–GUARDIANIt’s not often in British crime fiction that the characters come across as real, but here they literally leap off the page. This is a stunning series, and I look forward to many more. A real joy–Mark TimlinPolice procedural at its best. Tough, smart and too good to miss–Alan FurstTHE TAKE is quite simply the best police procedural I’ve read this year–Harlan Coben

About The Author

Graham Hurley

Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. He lived in Portsmouth for 20 years. He is married and has grown-up children. He now lives in Exmouth, Devon.

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