Bravo Jubilee by Charlie Owen

By Charlie Owen

Summer time 1977: It’s no vacation within the solar in Handstead New city, a north Manchester overspill. identified to the neighborhood law enforcement officials as Horse’s Arse, it’s getting ready to rejoice the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. yet lob-in soccer violence, rampant police hooliganism, and an increasing LSD market—there’ll be a insurrection happening. neighborhood gangster Sercan Ozdemir has underestimated DCI Harrison, head of the CID; blood at the ground in an interview room is all in a day’s paintings for him. And Ozdemir is aware that if his crime relations discovers he’s been doing his personal factor, they’ll pull his face off. in the meantime the uniform law enforcement officials, Psycho, Pizza, the Brothers, best friend, and the others hurl the rule of thumb booklet out of the window and proceed to carry the tide of legal scum at bay for so long as they could in a city they despise.

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Convinced it was something that just needed the right remedy, he had decided that prostitutes were the answer. Aldrin had been dispatched to make inquiries and one day returned to Allan's office with a stupid grin on his thick lips and his close-set eyes sparkling with joy. He had located a brothel in nearby Birchwood Avenue and hurried back to tell the great man. ' snapped Allan irritably and unconsciously squeezing his lifeless cock under his desk. ' 'Four when I was there, including a couple of right young ones,' he leered.

Our call sign is Bravo Two Two. All you have to say is Delta Hotel, this is Bravo Two Two, show us on watch please. ' Jackson repeated the mantra and then looked hopefully at Pizza. 'Pick up the handset, John,' said Pizza patiently. ' Jackson nodded again and stared intently at the blinking green 'air busy' light on the metal main set box as though waiting for a magic signal that it was his turn. Pizza found himself staring at it too, just as he had done as a brand new, shiny probationer. 33 'Go on, quickly,' he urged when there was a brief lull.

All the foot follows away from the nick had proved fruitless — none of the nick's residents appeared to walk to work — and to date all the pedestrians tailed off had returned with bags of shopping. No doubt this one would be the same, sighed Mustapha Tungay. He glanced over at his colleague sitting nearby in an inconspicuous BMW, ready to go after any unknown vehicles. His mate briefly nodded as Tungay set off after Allan. Twenty minutes later Tungay was in a phone box in Birchwood Avenue, sweat pouring off him in the greenhouse-like interior that also appeared to double as a public urinal.

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