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The White Trilogy (A White Arrest; Taming the Alien; The McDead) by Ken Bruen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Washington PostThis collection of three loosely connected novellas is beautifully written in a style that ranges from brutal to darkly funny to downright poetic. Bruen does a masterful job of depicting the bleak streets of modern-day London, then creating characters who gradually reveal themselves to be touchingly human in spite of their surroundings. The greatest testament to his skill is that I began the book hating the characters for being violent, corrupt and cynical, yet reached the final pages desperately hoping they would find some happiness in their stark lives. Factor in London street slang, male prostitution, an ethnically diverse cast, plenty of pub time and the Irish-English political undertones, and you have three compulsively readable tales of British crime and punishment. — Katy MungerPublisher's WeeklyHip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels by Bruen (The Guards), a modern Irish master of the hard-boiled. Collecting A White Arrest (1998), Taming the Alien (1999) and The McDead (2000) for first U.S. publication, this omnibus showcases the investigations of the aging Chief Inspector Robert
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- Author
- Ken Bruen
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453289310
- Category
- work of fiction