Death in Blitz City

Death in Blitz City
David Young
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
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9781838774349
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1942. Hull, East Yorkshire - It is the most heavily-bombed city outside of London - but for the sake of national morale the Hull Blitz is kept top secret. Only the politicians in Whitehall and Hull' s citizens themselves know of the true chaos. Newly-posted Inspector Ambrose Swift cannot believe the devastation he finds. But for Swift and his two deputies - part-time bare-knuckle boxer Jim ' Little' Weighton and Dales farmer' s daughter Kathleen Carver - it' s murder, not the war, that' s at the forefront of their minds. When a series of sadistic killings is wrongly blamed on locally-stationed black American GIs, Swift, a one-armed former WW1 cavalryman who tours the rubble-strewn city on a white horse, soon discovers these are no ordinary murders. The fetid stench of racism, corruption and perversion go to the very top. And for Swift, Weighton and Carver, finding the real killers means putting their own lives at risk - because powerful forces in the US and Britain cannot let the war effort be undermined. Not even by the truth.
East Yorkshire-born David Young began his East German-set crime series on a creative writing MA at London' s City University when Stasi Child - his debut - won the course prize. The novel went on to win the 2016 CWA Historical Dagger, and both it and the 2017 follow-up, Stasi Wolf, were longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. His novels have been sold in eleven territories round the world. Before becoming a full-time author, David was a senior journalist with the BBC' s international radio and TV newsrooms for more than 25 years. He writes in his Twickenham garden shed and in a caravan on the Isle of Wight. The Stasi Game, his sixth novel, is available to pre-order now. You can follow him on Twitter @djy_writer
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781838774349
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Zaffre
Publisher: Zaffre
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384

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