THE LAUNDRY MAN an uforgettable police procedural thriller (A Tommy Fox Thriller Book 2) by Amazon.co.uk
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Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox, head of the Flying Squad at New Scotland Yard and scourge of Londons underworld, gets out from behind his desk and interferes. But there is more to the crime than is at first apparent.A Cézanne painting has mysteriously disappeared, a supermarket in France is robbed, and a man is murdered. Then Fox and his men get wind of a plan to rob a safe depository.Foxs enquiries point to Danny Horsfall, a man who launders stolen money ... a man whose underworld activities have long attracted the keen interest of the police.Despite facing one of the most difficult challenges of his career and an almost impenetrable international crime ring that leads him from HMP Wormwood Scrubs to Paris and Brussels, meeting drug pushers, crooked art dealers, prostitutes, fraudsters and gun runners, Fox is determined to bring The Laundry Man to justice.Horsfall, however, has been careful to cover his tracks weapons are hidden, women are coerced and rivals are silenced. In his world, danger is commonplace and loyalty is rare. Beneath the light-hearted banter of the Flying Squad, everyone knows that in real crime real people get hurt ...
Praise for Graham Ison...
A fast-paced pros job with a surprise murderer cleverly held in the wings until near curtain-fall. - John Coleman,
Sunday Times
Another solid police procedural from Ison -
Kirkus Reviews
A neat job of police work and people so interesting youll want to race through -
Kirkus Reviews
Witty repartee rules in this procedural -
Kirkus Reviews
About the author...
Graham Ison
was born and brought up in Surrey. The son of an artist, and the grandson of a composer, he served in the army for five years before joining the police. He spent most of his service with the CID at Scotland Yard and between 1967 and 1971 was Personal Protection Officer to Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. After a spell of duty with the Diplomatic Protection Group, he returned to Scotland Yard in 1981 as a detective chief superintendent. He retired at this rank in 1986 and now lives in Hampshire.
Product information
- Print length:234 pages
- Language:English
- Sticky notes:On Kindle Scribe
- Publication date:25 July 2023
- File size:902 KB
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- Author:Graham Ison
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