Roy and Garry Robson are, unsurprisingly, brothers from the Elephant and Castle, south east London.
Their father (variously a pig farmer, cab driver, haulage contractor and general ducker and diver) and mother (homemaker, cook and doctor’s receptionist with a well-timed left hook) raised them and their siblings with some old fashioned south London working class values. These included hard work, respect for their elders and a willingness to duck and dive when required.
They have endeavoured, with varying degrees of success, to maintain the values their parents tried to instill in them. One day, whilst enjoying a beer or two, they decided to write a Crime Thriller Series. The gritty, pulsating and stylish London Large series is the result.
Roy lives in Bromley and works as a Service Delivery Manager for an International IT Consultancy. Garry lives in Krakow and is now, of all things, a sociology professor. Both career choices served as a source of confusion and humour to their parents, who were born and raised in the days before computers and sociology professors existed.
Although Harry ‘H’ Hawkins, the protagonist of the London Large novels, shares some of their old-fashioned values, he is not based upon Garry or Roy, neither of whom would survive the first chapter of a Harry Hawkins novel.
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London Large Short Stories
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Welcome to the second selection of short stories featuring the redoubtable force of nature that is Harry Hawkins.
'H' to friends and enemies alike.
The stories add range and depth to a character who has been described as the love child of Jack Regan (The Sweeney) and Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect).
The stories track him through a series of some of the defining moments that made him who he is. Intense tragic,comic - but always hard-edged - the five stories span decades and see H both at work and at play.
Can he save an innocent victim from descending into despair and madness after his wife is murdered? Put back the pieces of a young girl's life after the loss of her father? Prevent his one time police partner from going on a killing spree after she herself had been targeted by a serial killer?
These stories, and more, are an absolute must for anyone who likes a cracking good yarn or has an interest in the development of a flawed but heroic character, a man who will do whatever it takes to do some good in our dark world.
Título : Sharp and Short Volume II
EAN : 9798227513403
Editorial : London Large Publishing
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