Vixen: 5 (Inspector Brant) - Softcover

Bruen, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312327307 ISBN 13: 9780312327309

Publisher: SMP Paperback, 2005

Synopsis

For the Southeast London police squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuous, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry--and the cops don't even know she exists.

Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren't doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even-bigger-than-usual mean streak, and fast-rising Porter Nash finds himself facing serious health problems--everything to do with needles. PC MacDonald is determined to soldier on, whatever the cost, and the career of a new addition to the squad, WPC Andrews, starts spectacularly but with Falls as her mentor she's not expected to last long. At the top, Superintendent Brown is close to a coronary, and arresting the wrong man in a blaze of publicity is only the beginning of his problems.

If the squad survives this incendiary installment in Ken Bruen's blazingly intense series, they'll do so with barely a cop left standing.

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Review:

"Amongst writers, Ken Bruen has become the crime novelist to read. He is further revolutionizing the art of crime fiction." --George Pelecanos, author of Hard Revolution

"Bruen is a brilliant, lyrical, deeply moving writer who can make you laugh and cry in the same paragraph and whose characters are so sharply portrayed that they almost walk off the page at you. If you like Ian Rankin, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, and the like, Bruen is definitely a writer to reckon with." --Denver Post

"Bruen is an original, grimly hilarious and gloriously Irish. I await the further adventures of the incorrigible Jack Taylor." --Patrick Anderson, Washington Post

"The next major new Irish voice we hear might well belong to Ken Bruen." --Chicago Tribune

Synopsis:

BRANT IS BACK! For the south-east London police Squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business, as usual. The Vixen - the most sensuous, crazy, female serial-killer ever - is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is dispatching her own gang and the cops, and has more than a passing interest in WPC Falls...Meanwhile...Porter-Nash is facing a serious health problem, nothing to do with his being gay, but everything to do with needles. PC McDonald finds himself looking down the wrong end of a .38...The career of a new addition to the Squad, WPC Andrews starts spectacularly but, as usual, she is about to discover that dynamite doesn't just mean explosive substances...Superintendent Brown is close to a coronary, and arresting the wrong man in a blaze of publicity is only the beginning of his problems...If the Squad survives this incendiary installment, they'll do so with barely a cop left standing.

About this edition

• Publisher: SMP Paperback
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312327307
• ISBN 13: 9780312327309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204