A Bloody Good Friday

A Bloody Good Friday

by Desmond Barry (Author)

Synopsis

It is Good Friday, in the year 1977. Merthyr Tydfil. At twenty to midnight, a dozen different forces converge - Macky, just out of jail; the gippos and their knives; the Shop Boys, fifty or sixty skinheads in fanatical pursuit of recreational violence; PO.C Phillips, the young cooper with something to prove; Mohan Singh, proud owner of the Taj Mahal curry house. The result: mayhem. Race riot erupts in valleys town. And witness to it all, Davey Daunt, a spazzy with a leg brace is the only one who knows what really happened.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 0099426420
ISBN 13: 9780099426424

Author Bio
Desmond Barry was born and brought up in Wales. He moved to the United States in the mid 1980s and now lives in Massachusetts and New Jersey. His first novel, The Chivalry of Crime, was voted Best First Novel of the Year by The Western Writers of America and is short listed for the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award.