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 their journey through excess, despair and finally some form of salvation...
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780755336845
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 277 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
'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
A brilliant and really funny book . If you liked the T V series "life on mars " then you will definately enjoy reading this book .
I was recommended this book by a very good friend and ex police officer. I served in the Met during the 1970's through to the 1990's. Many of the incidents mentioned in the book I can relate to , as I'm... More
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