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Horse´s Arse
Charlie Owen
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Description for Horse´s Arse
Paperback. The first novel in an explosive, violent, often hilarious series. Life on Mars meets The Sweeney in this riotous novel about policing in the Seventies, by a former policeman Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
It is the Seventies and Horse's Arse is the affectionate name for Handstead New Town, a North Manchester overspill and an unholy dump. The police use it as a penal posting - all the bad egg coppers end up there. Worst amongst the residents of Handstead are the Park Royal Mafia, a gang of violent thugs who terrorise their neighbourhood. They and the officers doomed to serve at Handstead wrestle constantly for dominance. This is the story of some of those police officers - the Grim Brothers, Psycho, Pizza, Piggy Malone and others, a group of hooligans in uniform and ... Read more
It is the Seventies and Horse's Arse is the affectionate name for Handstead New Town, a North Manchester overspill and an unholy dump. The police use it as a penal posting - all the bad egg coppers end up there. Worst amongst the residents of Handstead are the Park Royal Mafia, a gang of violent thugs who terrorise their neighbourhood. They and the officers doomed to serve at Handstead wrestle constantly for dominance. This is the story of some of those police officers - the Grim Brothers, Psycho, Pizza, Piggy Malone and others, a group of hooligans in uniform and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755336845
SKU
V9780755336845
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99-50
About Charlie Owen
Charlie Owen enjoyed a thirty year career in the police service, serving with two forces in the Home Counties and London reaching the rank of Inspector. He recently commenced a second career in the security services department of an investment bank. HORSE'S ARSE is his first novel. He is currently working on a second novel and another ... Read more
Reviews for Horse´s Arse
'Charlie Owen is a talent. This is the first book since Layer Cake to have an authentic voice that humorously exposes the dark and eccentric world of English street crime'
Guy Ritchie
'Foul-mouthed, scatological, amusing and appalling in equal measure'
Guardian
Guy Ritchie
'Foul-mouthed, scatological, amusing and appalling in equal measure'
Guardian