Easy StreetsEasy Streets
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Book, 2005
Current format, Book, 2005, 1st American ed, No Longer Available.Book, 2005
Current format, Book, 2005, 1st American ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAfter a small-time criminal's house is firebombed. leaving the owner and his daughter dead, mistrust and uncertainty pervade the formerly well-managed streets: more drug dealers emerge and competition grows. With the failure of a once mutually beneficial relationship between cops and criminals, a battle for survival ensues. Bill James is "a point--ripe with humor, fast dialogue and incisive wit, he offers entrance into the shocking and fascinating underbelly of a city and its inherent mysteries.
For years Colin Harpur's dubious boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, ran a questionable but practical arrangement with Mansel Shale and Panicking Ralph Ember, owner of the Monty Club: Iles would protect their businesses if they ensured peace on the streets. But the arrangement fails when violence erupts.
When a small-time criminal's house is firebombed, the precarious agreement between the police force and the local underworld is shattered, forcing officer Colin Harpur to handle increasingly violent cases involving competitive drug dealers. By the author of Naked at the Window.
For years Colin Harpur's dubious boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, ran a questionable but practical arrangement with Mansel Shale and Panicking Ralph Ember, owner of the Monty Club: Iles would protect their businesses if they ensured peace on the streets. But the arrangement fails when violence erupts.
When a small-time criminal's house is firebombed, the precarious agreement between the police force and the local underworld is shattered, forcing officer Colin Harpur to handle increasingly violent cases involving competitive drug dealers. By the author of Naked at the Window.
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