2 BY G. F. NEWMAN

2 from G. F. Newman - another author on the pile, with some interesting books offering a bit of Brit-Grit crime 

Both books are from the late 70s and are concerned with LAW and ORDER. They form part of a trilogy along with A DETECTIVE'S TALE. The books were the basis for some TV plays which aired on the BBC in 1978. The programmes were controversial because of the premise that the police and justice system was essentially corrupt.

I've a few more books from Gordon Frank Newman on the pile - his other three book series featuring Terry Sneed. These date from the early 70's - Sir, You Bastard, You Nice Bastard and You Flash Bastard.  Something tells me Terry Sneed might be a bit of a bastard!

Newman has written over twenty five books in all, but I doubt I'll get around to all of them.

A VILLAIN'S TALE (1977)

THERE'S MORE TO LAW AND ORDER THAN YOU'LL EVER READ IN THE PAPERS...

Jack Lynn was a veteran blagger. Armed robbery was his dangerous trade and he knew the risks he took. But one risk no villain can fully guard against is getting fitted by the CID when they think someone's overdue. Lynn was overdue, according to Detectvie Inspector Fred Pyall. Whether or not Lynn had a blag set up at the moment, he was going to have a hard time keeping out of nick now that Pyall was after him....

No other author writes of the underworld and the close professional relationships between police and criminals with such total authenticity as G. F. Newman, bestselling author of Sir, You Bastard. Always controversial and compellingly readable, Newman takes the reader to the heart of the brutal world of crime as it is really committed, with no false glamourizing of the actions of villains or police. A Villain's Tale (together with the two other novels in the trilogy of which it forms a part) will open the eyes of every reader who has ever wondered about the truth that hides behind the bland words of the crime reports in the newspapers.

A PRISONER'S TALE (1977)

THERE'S MORE TO LAW AND ORDER THAN YOU'LL EVER READ IN THE PAPERS...

Jack Lynn had been well and truly fitted by the filth. And he'd been sentenced to twenty years as a consequnence. But Lynn wasn't going to lie still for it. He was going to fight the system every inch of the way, and in every way he knew. Which, in a brutal prison system where lip service is paid to "rehabilitation" but the real name of the game is repression, was a very dangerous strategy. Not that Lynn had much to lose. Or so he thought...

A Prisoner's Tale uncompromisingly plunges the reader into the world of the modern prison system for one of the most shocking and eye-opening reading experiences of his life. Here, in the form of a savageky compelling novel of desperate men in a desperate situation, is more essential truth about the violent reality of prison existence than could ever be found in a hundred official reports. This outstanding novel concludes G. F. NEWMAN's frighteningly authentic 'Law and Order' trilogy with stunning force.