{ "item_title" : "Deadly Tide", "item_author" : [" George East "], "item_description" : "Jack Mowgley is anything but an ordinary copper. For starters, how many police officers have 'ACAB' (All Coppers Are Bastards) tattooed on their knuckles? Or get booze and baccy supplies by smuggling them through the continental ferry port he is supposed to be keeping free of crime? Or dispense sometimes very rough justice without troubling the courts? For these and many other reasons, Inspector John 'Jack' Mowgley is a very different detective.He also finds the rules and requirements of political correctness a closed book. After proving a great disappointment to his wife, a painful divorce resulted in our flawed hero being dispossessed of his home in Hampshire and lumbered with the crippling mortgage on a pretentious ruin in Normandy. This is why he lodges where he can in between spending his time on the job or in his dockside local pub, The Ship Leopard.Deadly Tide opens with the world on the brink of a new millennium. A beachcomber finds a Hermes Birkin designer bag containing a large amount of heroin, and an even larger amount of banknotes, along with two severed arms. Meanwhile, a cleaner on board a cross-Channel ferry boat finds a limbless and headless body in a luxury cabin.At his temporary lodgings above the Midnight Tindaloo, our hero is awoken with the grim news by his fiercely loyal assistant, drinking companion and confidante, Sergeant Catherine McCarthy. To other members of the City force, she is a strikingly attractive, clever but often prickly officer. To Mowgley she is his muse and mate Melons, but he is the only person on earth allowed her to call her that.After opening the Trunk Murder case, Mowgley and Melons find themselves following a trail across the Channel which becomes increasingly littered with dead bodies... and body parts.WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT INSPECTOR MOWGLEY: I was totally absorbed as the tale unfolded. Not so much by the plot, but by waiting for the next assault on political correctness.Refreshingly and hilariously non-PC.Make way for a new anti-hero. A triumph for Mr East.The character was so beautifully flawed, the plot inventive and the humour original.Regular readers of George East productions will recognise the sharp witticisms, the keen eye for the absurd, and the understanding of the human condition.Extract from Deadly Tide:Being a public holiday, the civilian members of Team Mowgley were absent, but Detective Constable Stephen Mundy was working at his neatly organised desk. Lacking sufficient breath to speak as well as walk, Mowgley silently summoned the young DC to join them in the glass and partition box that served as the Inspector's office.Inside, Mowgley draped his overcoat over a filing cabinet and collapsed into the chair behind his desk. Melons cleared away a stack of papers and perched on its edge, while DC Mundy stood almost at attention in front of it.Stephen Mundy was tall and thin with a full head of dark, straight hair. His height and demeanour inclined him to a stoop and what Mowgley called his obliging face and generally apologetic air was claimed by some officers to be worn because of who his father was, or had been.Chief Superintendent Sidney Mundy had until recently been the city's senior officer, and it was alleged in some quarters that he had engineered his son's attachment to Team Mowgley. If that were so, his plan to have a spy in Mowgley's camp had not worked. The young man had proved to be loyal to his new boss, and Mundy senior had been unable to glean any damaging information about his most maverick officer.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/90/874/708/1908747080_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.58", "online_price" : "14.58", "our_price" : "14.58", "club_price" : "14.58", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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