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Rosanna Nixon - a small but feisty one-girl awkward squad known as the Mouse - is beginning to realize that her job is choking her to death.
Her rival tabloid newshounds want to screw her - in every way - and they haven't got a hope in hell.
When a young convict dies during a riot at a Scottish jail, she alone refuses to accept the official line it was an accident.
She wants the truth.
The authorities, panicking, transfer the wildest prisoners down to England - including the brother of the murdered man.
Known as 'The Animal', and burning for revenge, he is dumped blindly into a prison that is already a bomb ready to explode. It holds murderers, terrorists, a US gangster betrayed by the CIA, and a multi-millionaire whose corrupt tentacles reach into the very highest levels of government.
He will do anything to get out.
Roseanna, brutally discouraged by the establishment, needs an ally...and fast.
Her shady contacts put her onto Andrew Forbes, who has been a thorn in the flesh of the masters of the universe for years.
Very soon they are a team, then lovers, living under constant surveillance and harassment in Forbes's rundown London house.
As the cauldron of violence in the prison begins to boil over, the fuse of their own destruction is being lit...
Andrew and Roseanna fear the worst is coming. And that they are being stalked by death.
'Kicking Off' is a nail-biting thriller of rampant greed, police corruption and abuse of power in the highest places.
'The book is compelling for its vivid, racy narrative ... it's also a serious attempt to use the thriller genre to analyse the forces in our society that have combined to create the prison crisis. Its exposure of the way that Whitehall manipulates the media has a chilling authenticity . . . it will appeal equally to conspiracy and cock-up theorists.' - Guardian
'Needle displays a firm grasp of institutions and their traps, exposes expediency and self-interest masquerading as government, and reveals a Britain regressing to the dark days of Dickens.' - The Times
'A cracking good read.' TONY PARKER, New Statesman and Society
'A compulsive read that feeds your paranoia.' - Roger Graef (The Police, Closing Ranks, The Secret Policeman's Ball)
'I found myself being drawn back into that twilight world again, despite myself. I was grossly entertained and thrilled.' - Jimmy Boyle - convicted murderer (A Sense of Freedom, Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries)
Jan Needle has had more than forty books published, 'Death Order', 'Other People's Blood', 'The Devil's Luck' and 'Nelson: The Poisoned River'.
Genre: Mystery
Her rival tabloid newshounds want to screw her - in every way - and they haven't got a hope in hell.
When a young convict dies during a riot at a Scottish jail, she alone refuses to accept the official line it was an accident.
She wants the truth.
The authorities, panicking, transfer the wildest prisoners down to England - including the brother of the murdered man.
Known as 'The Animal', and burning for revenge, he is dumped blindly into a prison that is already a bomb ready to explode. It holds murderers, terrorists, a US gangster betrayed by the CIA, and a multi-millionaire whose corrupt tentacles reach into the very highest levels of government.
He will do anything to get out.
Roseanna, brutally discouraged by the establishment, needs an ally...and fast.
Her shady contacts put her onto Andrew Forbes, who has been a thorn in the flesh of the masters of the universe for years.
Very soon they are a team, then lovers, living under constant surveillance and harassment in Forbes's rundown London house.
As the cauldron of violence in the prison begins to boil over, the fuse of their own destruction is being lit...
Andrew and Roseanna fear the worst is coming. And that they are being stalked by death.
'Kicking Off' is a nail-biting thriller of rampant greed, police corruption and abuse of power in the highest places.
'The book is compelling for its vivid, racy narrative ... it's also a serious attempt to use the thriller genre to analyse the forces in our society that have combined to create the prison crisis. Its exposure of the way that Whitehall manipulates the media has a chilling authenticity . . . it will appeal equally to conspiracy and cock-up theorists.' - Guardian
'Needle displays a firm grasp of institutions and their traps, exposes expediency and self-interest masquerading as government, and reveals a Britain regressing to the dark days of Dickens.' - The Times
'A cracking good read.' TONY PARKER, New Statesman and Society
'A compulsive read that feeds your paranoia.' - Roger Graef (The Police, Closing Ranks, The Secret Policeman's Ball)
'I found myself being drawn back into that twilight world again, despite myself. I was grossly entertained and thrilled.' - Jimmy Boyle - convicted murderer (A Sense of Freedom, Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries)
Jan Needle has had more than forty books published, 'Death Order', 'Other People's Blood', 'The Devil's Luck' and 'Nelson: The Poisoned River'.
Genre: Mystery
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