Calibre
By: Ken Bruen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780312341442
Subjects: Serial murderers; Psychopaths; Police; Detective Sergeant Brant (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: The Southeast London Police Squad is plagued by a serial murderer who's determined to give his victims a lesson in manners. The "Manners Killer" believes that anyone who behaves rudely in public (e.g., verbally abuses a store clerk, slaps a child) is fair game. He soon finds that he's no match for Brant, Bruen's amoral, sociopathic brute of a detective. While his methods may be questionable, Brant gets results, and we find ourselves secretly cheering him on. Meanwhile, Brant is writing his first crime novel, Calibre, and aspires to become the English Joseph Wambaugh. Of course, he doesn't let the fact that he can't write deter him; Brant just nicks the stories from his cop buddy Porter Nash.