Foxtrot Oscar
By: Charlie Owen
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780755336852; 9780755336869
Subjects: Organized crime; Fiction; Police
Description: 1976 -- James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister; Brotherhood of Man win the Eurovision Song Contest, things surely cannot get much worse!or can they? Handstead New Town, affectionately known as Horse's Arse, a North Manchester overspill and ugly dump, melts under the relentless heat wave of the summer. The Park Royal Mafia, a group of local villains, is under new management but its muscle and sheer mindless violence has attracted the sinister attention of Sercan Ozdemir, a Turkish gangster. The police, Horse's Arse's finest, The Grim Brothers, Psycho, Pizza and the rest, try and keep a lid on things in their own inimitable style. But when the CID manoeuvre the Park Royal Mafia into a catastrophic arrangement with Ozdemir, it can only end in tears ...