Hooky Gear

by NickBarlay (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $6.80

  The third in Nick Barlay's critically acclaimed urban trilogy. Set in the modern urban landscape of London, Nick's final book deals with another of life's strugglers, the burgler. In the frenetic opening our hero - along with his partner, Duane - bungles a simple housebreak and is caught and sent down at her Majesty's pleasure. He emerges, years later, to find his life has fallen apart. His girlfriend has left him, he can't get a job, and the only people pleased to see him are his partners-in-crime. A return to his bad, old ways seems the only option...

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.54

  J is a successful burglar, with a house full of 'well-selected antique furnishins', a wife with an 'enhanced front', and a talent for acquiring hooky gear. But when a break-in goes badly wrong he finds himself betrayed and deserted by the people he trusted the most. Emerging from prison, J is torn between good intentions and the desire for revenge, but as the strands of his life continue to unravel before him, he becomes an unlikely, and ultimately tragic, hero.

  This is an engaging novel, by a writer with a really strong voice. Read the first two pages and you will be hooked.

  
  
  

  'This is a fine literary novel with an ambition to be greater than a gangster-police thriller. Barlay has achieved his goal and more.' Telegraph