Saturday, December 10, 2005
Crime Trade-Simon Kelnick
AUTHOR Kernick, Simon. TITLE The crime trade / Simon Kernick. EDITION 1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed. IMPRINT New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, c2005. DESCRIPT 382 p. ; 25 cm. SUBJECT Police internal investigation -- Fiction. Colombians -- Great Britain -- Fiction. Police -- Great Britain -- Fiction. Undercover operations -- Fiction. Police murders -- Fiction. Drug traffic -- Fiction. Mystery fiction. ISBN 0312340591.
"When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers, goes tragically wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the undercover police officers involved: "Stegs" Jenner. Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, he has in the past played the role of a criminal a little too well. Now suspended from duty, and with his close friend killed in the shootout, he determines to go at it alone." "Enter DI John Gallan and his partner DS Tina Boyd, part of the Serious Crime Squad investigating the murder of ex-gangster-turned-informant Slim Robbie O'Brien. Slim Robbie had helped Gallan and Boyd set up Surgical Strike and is now dead, too, shot in his home while the operation was taking place." "Meanwhile Stegs is working to his own agenda, developing a plan he's been thinking about for a long time. Revenge, he decides, is a dish best served very, very cold." "As Gallan, Boyd and DI Asif Malik inch ever nearer to the man responsible for the shooting, they uncover a murderous conspiracy that will take them to the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs. What they cannot know is that they've also embarked on a journey that will lead one of them straight into the rifle sights of the enemy."--BOOK JACKET.
"When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers, goes tragically wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the undercover police officers involved: "Stegs" Jenner. Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, he has in the past played the role of a criminal a little too well. Now suspended from duty, and with his close friend killed in the shootout, he determines to go at it alone." "Enter DI John Gallan and his partner DS Tina Boyd, part of the Serious Crime Squad investigating the murder of ex-gangster-turned-informant Slim Robbie O'Brien. Slim Robbie had helped Gallan and Boyd set up Surgical Strike and is now dead, too, shot in his home while the operation was taking place." "Meanwhile Stegs is working to his own agenda, developing a plan he's been thinking about for a long time. Revenge, he decides, is a dish best served very, very cold." "As Gallan, Boyd and DI Asif Malik inch ever nearer to the man responsible for the shooting, they uncover a murderous conspiracy that will take them to the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs. What they cannot know is that they've also embarked on a journey that will lead one of them straight into the rifle sights of the enemy."--BOOK JACKET.