Full Whack

Name: Smart Brit, keen wit, take a hit
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by Charlie Higson

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'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham

'Piercing wit and accelerated action in finely paced style' Time Out
'Lively narration, a superabundance of action... gruesome and hilarious' Evening Standard

Dennis 'The Menace' Pike, former wild man of Tottenham, is going grey and going straight. Anyway, it was hard work being a yob- the birds, the brawls, the endless beers- and he hasn't really got the energy any more for life on the edge. Then two old faces turn up from the past- the Bishop brothers, Chas and Noel. Famously inept, they were bad news then, and they haven't aged well. What's worse, they need Pike's expertise on a scheme wealth distribution really- offloading one of the old gang's ill-gotten millions. Robbing the robbers- now what's criminal about that?

Pike, still haunted by what happened one wreckless night all those years ago, refuses to get involved. But old habits die hard, and when he suddenly finds his bank account tampered with, Pike is drawn back into a world he spent ten years escaping. Thug or mug, he is nevertheless forced to confront a man so psychotically unhinged that his own youth seems like mere kids' stuff...

A slick, razor-sharp novel, FULL WHACK is packed full of searing wit, scurrilous characters and nefarious knock-about.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0349144869

ISBN13:9780349144863

Release Date:February 2022

Publisher:Abacus (UK)

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"

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Smart Brit, keen wit, take a hit

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago

This is a crime novel by a British guy who's also a stand up comic and a musician. No, none of that detective stuff, but like all good modern noir fiction, crime based on the man in the street. Dennis Pike, 34 and already going gray, is called on by two of his former cronies in crime, the Bishop brothers, for a new heist--of their former gangmate who's now made it big. Dennis is not too keen on this--as they say--'cause now he's gone straight. But a mysterious disappearance of his bank account forces him to go along with the plan. The three of them do not count on Terry Nugent, resident nutjob who's about as violent as they come, gumming up the works. There's also Marti, Dennis' former girlfriend who's taken up with Patterson, another former gangmate, and Herman the German, the computer whiz. And of course the amazingly disgusting Mr. Bishop, father to the two brothers.The slang comes fast and furious here but even for those of us Yanks who're not familiar with it, the context is there to help us out. The writing here is sharp and the story is a good one. This is a well done crime novel for those of you who like noir fiction with bite and flavor (or flavour, as they would say across the pond).Recommended.

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