Charlie Owen: 4 books

The riotous third novel in Charlie Owen's acclaimed seventies police series. Summer 1977: It?s no holiday in the sun in Handstead New Town, a north Manchester overspill. Known to the local cops as Horse?s Arse, it?s preparing to celebrate the Queen?s Silver Jubilee. But with football violence, rampant police hooliganism and an expanding LSD market there?ll be a riot going on...

It is the Seventies and Horse?s Arse is the affectionate name for Handstead New Town, a North Manchester overspill and an unholy dump. The police use it as a penal posting ? all the bad egg coppers end up there. Worst amongst the residents of Handstead are the Park Royal Mafia, a gang of violent thugs...

It?s 1976 and England is sweating its nuts off. As an unrelenting heat wave beats down on the nation, the residents of Horse?s Arse ? aka Handstead New Town, north Manchester ? are reaching melting point. The Park Royal Mafia, having recovered from the loss of its senior members, is under new management...

The brilliant new novel in the hooligan cop series by the acclaimed author of HORSE?S ARSE