BATS Fly Up for Inspector Ghote - Hardcover

Keating, H. R. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405685336 ISBN 13: 9781405685337

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Inspector Ghote has been transferred to the BATS - the Black-money and Allied Transactions Squad. The BATS officers should be working to arrest pickpockets and sneak thieves, but Ghote's tough mission is to root out corruption in his new fellow officers, as it seems that someone has been leaking information so that police operations fail. On this patch of coastal India, in a world of underground finance, stolen money can lead to a whole host of black market transactions, including gold-smuggling operations. In the course of his duties, Ghote acquires a torturing overwhelming suspicion of everyone and everything, and he resolves to resign from the Bombay Police Department - amid protestations from his wife...

About this title

About the Author

H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he describes as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for "The Times" for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, "The Perfect Murder," won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405685336
• ISBN 13: 9781405685337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192