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Up-and-coming drug lord Keith Vine likes the fine work his best pusher, Eleri ap Vaughan, but when her eye wanders to another supplier, he kills her. Her death is intended as a message, but instead it sets off a murderous struggle for turf. At the center is a lurking stranger, "Lovely Mover", who seems to be planning an invasion.
Detective Chief Inspector Colin Harpur, working undercover as Vine's supposed partner, now finds himself in increasing danger, and only one person suspects what he's up to -- his sneering superior ACC Desmond Iles, a man it is risky to trust. Before the story reaches its exciting conclusion, Harpur will be lucky to get out alive.
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About the Author:
Bill James has been called "the Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld" (Kirkus Reviews) and has been named a "Master of Crime" in a mystery roundup by the London Sunday Times, which said, "There is nothing else quite like this series of police procedurals. James is concerned with the dilemmas and difficulties of policing Britain's inner cities, and he addresses these in hard-edged narratives that leave readers gasping and flinching, praying the people in these stories never come to live in their streets." In addition to the Harpur and Iles series, James is the author of other mystery series and a book on Anthony Powell. He lives in Wales.
From Kirkus Reviews:
When she seems to be looking toward an alternative supplier from London, Keith Vine regretfully murders Eleri Vaughan, the aging drug pusher he's got working aboard a ship-turned-restaurant, but then he insists on doing his level best for her corpse. Eleri's exequies at the hands of caring Keith and Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, whom he's recently put on his payroll, are a perfect introduction, for readers who missed the earlier installments (Top Banana, p. 27, etc.) to this dark soap opera of crooked cops and self-respecting crooks. Keith just wants Harpur to hold his hand as he fights off the London source dubbed Lovely Mover; club owner Panicking Ralph Ember, worried about his own future in these uncertain times, just wants some security for the bond Keith's asking him to float to underwrite a proper house for Keith, his love interest Becky, and their son Charles; Harpur, whose undercover assignment seems to be secret only to Chief Constable Mark Lane, just wants to get the goods on Keith's own suppliers without getting his own hands too dirty. The characters waste scarcely a syllable in clarifying the tangled plot, but they stand always ready to expatiate hilariously on the decline of personal loyalty, the value of classical literature in translation, and of course those questions of funeral etiquette. James has perfected a style of ironic blather that makes nearly every scene a classic, though the resolution of Keith's problems doesn't do justice to James's central conceit. Only the full series can do that. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0786216808
- ISBN 13 9780786216802
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages343
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