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A WHITE ARREST
by Ken Bruen
£6.50
1 899344 08 X
B-format (198mm x 127mm) paperback original
Galway-born
Ken Bruen's ground-breaking novel from 1998 is a police-procedural, but
this is no well-ordered 57th Precinct romp. Centred around the corrupt
and seedy worlds of Detective Sergeant Brandt and Chief Inspector Roberts,
A White Arrest concerns itself with the search for The Umpire, a cricket-obsessed
serial killer that is wiping out the England team. And to add insult to
injury a group of vigilantes appear to to doing the police's job for them
by stringing up drug-dealers. and the police like it even less than the
victims. This first novel in an original and thought provoking trilogy
from the author of whom Books in Ireland said: "If Martin Amis was writing
crime novels, this is what he would hope to write."
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