Rat Run

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All traces of self-esteem have been brutally stripped from Malachy Kitchen, an Intelligence officer posted to Iraq. He is accused of covi^ardice while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. Word spreads that he ran under hostile fire. In the military family there is no worse crime.
Humiliated and broken, kicked out of the army, Malachy sinks into despair. He becomes an isolated recluse in a drug-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow by addicts lights a flame that draws him to fight to regain his lost pride. His target is the network of narcotics traders.
Pushers, dealers, suppliers are that network, and at their head is Ricky Capel, a crime baron importing heroin into the UK. Untouchable up to now, Capel will have to confront an enemy more driven than any of the policemen he has so far successfully outwitted.
Capel is fighting a war on only one front, but when his Albanian associates demand that he uses his drug route to ferry an... Tovább

Fülszöveg

All traces of self-esteem have been brutally stripped from Malachy Kitchen, an Intelligence officer posted to Iraq. He is accused of covi^ardice while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. Word spreads that he ran under hostile fire. In the military family there is no worse crime.
Humiliated and broken, kicked out of the army, Malachy sinks into despair. He becomes an isolated recluse in a drug-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow by addicts lights a flame that draws him to fight to regain his lost pride. His target is the network of narcotics traders.
Pushers, dealers, suppliers are that network, and at their head is Ricky Capel, a crime baron importing heroin into the UK. Untouchable up to now, Capel will have to confront an enemy more driven than any of the policemen he has so far successfully outwitted.
Capel is fighting a war on only one front, but when his Albanian associates demand that he uses his drug route to ferry an Islamic fanatic to Britain, suddenly he is vulnerable from other directions
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER: 'A superb feat of storytelling from a master of his craft.' Sunday Telegraph
THE UNTOUCHABLE: 'A clever, informed and worldly cynical story about arrogance, obsession and tragedy.' The Times
HOLDING THE ZERO: 'Refreshingly original Another gem from the master of the modern adventure story.' The Times
A LINE IN THE SAND: 'Brilliantly written and deserving of the Booker Prize, if only it wasn't so populist.' Mail on Sunday Vissza