The Take - Softcover

Cole, Martina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747267677 ISBN 13: 9780747267676

Publisher: Headline, 2006

Synopsis

Telling it like it really is, Martina Cole's unique, honest and compassionate style shines through in her latest novel. After Six years in prison, Freddie Jackson thinks he is the Essex equivalent to the Godfather - he's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. Bitter, resentful and increasingly unstable, Jackie watches her life crumble while her little sister Maggie's star rises. In love with Freddie's cousin Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister.

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About the Author

Martina Cole is the acknowledged queen of crime drama with more than twenty novels to her name, of which over a dozen have been No.1 bestsellers. Several of Martina's novels have been adapted for the screen, including The Take and The Runaway which were shown on Sky 1 to remarkable reviews. In addition, Two Women and The Graft have been adapted for the stage; both were highly acclaimed when performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, which also staged Dangerous Lady in 2012, celebrating twenty years since Martina's debut novel was published. Martina Cole is a phenomenon. She continues to smash sales records with each of her books, which have sold thirteen million copies. In 2011 Martina surpassed the GBP50 million sales mark since records began and was the first British female novelist for adult audiences to achieve this - and she has spent more weeks in the No. 1 slot on the original fiction bestseller list than any other adult novelist. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing is in a genre all its own - no one writes like Martina.

Review

'A blinding good read' Ray Winstone 'The stuff of legend...utterly compelling' Mirror 'Cole is brilliant at portraying the good among the bad, and vice versa, so until the very end we never quite know who to trust. This is the very stuff that makes her so compelling' Daily Mirror No one writes about East End women and their vagaries like Martina Cole Maxim Jakubowski, Murder One 'A powerful novel that pulls no punches... Cole has an ear for the vernacular of the East End, as well as an ability to portray the viciousness of life at the edge' the Guide Guide 'Right from the start [Cole] has enjoyed unqualified approval for her distinctive and powerfully written fiction' The Times Intensely readable Guardian 'Martina Cole explores the shady criminal underworld, a setting she is fast making her own' Sunday Express 'Utterly compelling' Mirror 'The story will grip you from the first pages' Best 'Gritty novel from an author who knows intimately the world she writes about' Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747267677
• ISBN 13: 9780747267676
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 672