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Gangsters: DeathtouchGangsters: Deathtouch Death comes to Birmingham disguised as W.C. Fields John Kline s gone straight. Or he s trying to. The restaurant business isn t all he d hoped for not with his old nemesis Inspector Khan pulling the strings of the liquor licencing board. Khan s willing to cut a deal but he isn t the only one. Shadowy forces of conspiracy and counter-conspiracy converge, and Kline has a choice: play the respectable citizen or play his own game. By his side, Anne Darracott, off the needle but on guard. She and Kline share a history but not all of it. Meanwhile, a new danger rises in the east. The White Devil, a legend out of the arcane, death himself if death had a prehensile penis, anyway. One thing s for sure, Birmingham s changing Philip Martin s Gangsters: Deathtouch is the final instalment in a saga that began in 1976, with the cult classic BBC series. Uncompromising and anarchic, Gangsters combined realism with pulp fiction, social commentary with the absurd, winning the op...
Adult Fiction
GangstersGangsters by Philip Martin Novelisation of the classic gritty 1970s British drama. John Kline is an ex-SAS officer recently released from prison who finds himself hired by the secretive DI6 police organisation to go undercover in the Birmingham underworld. Infiltrating a violent gangster organisation, Kline soon finds himself making some dangerous enemies, with his loyalties trapped between two opposing forces. Gangsters is a novel of money, power and violence, the story of racketeers who grow fat on the profits of illegal immigration, drug trafficking and death. Gangsters: Deathtouch is available to pre-order now:
