Twisted Justice - Softcover

Ashford, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816174091 ISBN 13: 9780816174096

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Ashford, Jeffrey

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From Kirkus Reviews:

On the night terrorist Roger Illmore escapes from the Torring Farm prison and heads for a place to hole up until he can flee England, young Andrew Stone, tiptoeing out of his girlfriend Joanna's house, has the bad luck to catch a glimpse of the fleeing prisoner. The next night, Andrew's car is waylaid by men wearing Mickey Mouse masks. When he wakes up, he's parked in front of his own house, and his detective-sergeant dad suspects that Andrew is responsible for a hit-and-run death. Is he? Rather than turn in his own son, Stone falsifies evidence and begins investigating what gradually comes to seem like a frame-up. Then his superiors suggest he take a leave while they decide whether to toss him off the force; his wife is injured by a car bomb; and he ties in the terrorist with the theft of US siloed rockets destined for Northern Ireland. All ends tidily with a full-scale police raid at sea--and lack of sufficient evidence (thanks to the car bomb) to convict young Stone. Ashford, whose characters usually are caught up fighting their principles (An Illegal Solution, 1991, etc.), again tests his hero's moral fiber by giving him conflicting loyalties. Intellectually interesting, but the plot borders on the outlandish. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Det. Sgt. Gerry Stone of the Kent police is not a crooked cop, but when his car fits the description of one involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident on the night his son Andy was driving, his paternal instincts win over the law. Although hard-pressed to believe Andy's story of a car-jacking by two men who forced him at knife point to drink until he was unconscious, Stone nevertheless begins his own surreptitious probe of events. But before long the police investigation leads straight-arrow Det. Insp. Kemp to Andy. Readers know the IRA may be involved, but Kemp and Stone aren't clued in until antiterrorist higher-ups from New Scotland Yard warn them off. After Stone's wife is nearly killed by a bomb, he and Kemp apply smart police work to solve the puzzle. Veteran Ashford ( An Illegal Solution and 28 other books) knows his procedures and psychology, which he plumbs with precise, spare prose. Readers will relish the neat, satisfying ending with its nifty final twist.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0816174091
• ISBN 13: 9780816174096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234