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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is kind of Robert Ludlum meets author of Trainspotting. The author keeps the British-isms to a minimum so it's very readable and the fact that all the locales, personalities and slang don't really impinge on the reader's experience if the reader is American. A basic thriller with the twist that the hero/antagonist is a homeless man. Definitely lots of subplots so it keeps pace by moving from subplot to subplot rather than frenetic activity or quick paced writing style. (  )shawnd | Sep 2, 2007 |   Takes a while to get into the complex story, which has several parallel threads but then hooks you. A disgraced British soldier seeks redemption through fighting drug-fueled crime on a "sink estate" in London and finds himself unwittingly drawn into an anti-terrorist operation. (  )edwardsgt | Jun 30, 2007 | 0.010 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 059305508X, Hardcover)In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was ‘yellow’ under hostile fire, his life starts to disintegrate.Kicked out of the army, he becomes an isolated recluse in a drugs infested London estate. But the mugging of his neighbour of an elderly widow by addicts lights the flame that draws him to regain his lost pride and to take the fight to the narcotics network he sees around him. But it is not so simple –because the drugs routes have been colonized by other factions who want to deliver equally dangerous packages around the world. And if Malachy is to complete his quest, he must first enter one of the darker alleyways of life . . . (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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