One Under (Di Joe Faraday)

by Graham Hurley (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.26

  A man, chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the tracks by the early morning train from Portsmouth to London. The beginning of DI Joe Faraday's most gruesome case yet. A bizarre suicide? The cruelest of murders? Checking the list of missing persons as the police attempt to identify the body DC Winter comes across a missing man, someone who stepped out of their ordered life with no hint of leaving. He's not the man in the tunnel, he's simply disappeared. The only person he can find who knew him works in the city morgue. Once again Graham Hurley has taken his forensic skill to the lives of people, victims, criminals and police, struggling to survive life in a modern British city. With his trademark realism and his focus on two very different policeman; one awkward and by the book, the other bolshy and walking the thinnest of lines, Hurley's Faraday and Winter novels are earning ever more spectacular reviews, and building readership. One Under: two deaths, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love, one brilliant microcosm of Britain today.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.26

  This deal takes forward a trilogy that will actually begin with Graham's next novel (the last of the current contract) published in October 2005. Three standalone crime novels will be linked by an over-arching story line that takes Faraday into the centre of a political conspiracy; murder at the centre of government. A man has been killed - his body found in the sea at the base of cliffs on the Isle of White. With fingers and face eaten by crabs and fish identification proves tricky but eventually the body is identified as that of a journalist. A man who was writing a book on a private security firm. A firm used by the government in the murky world of 'non-attributable operations'. A firm with blood on their hands. A firm with strong links to a current cabinet minister. Faraday's investigation takes him deep into the world of immigration and international nuclear trading and right up against the stonewall of MI5. Just how accountable are our leaders? How many lawmakers are above the law? Linked closely to current events and political figures this trilogy will chart 18 months in the life of the nation. It will be Joe Faraday's harshest test yet.