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Endeavour Press
Category:
Crime
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Type: Fiction
one of life's plodders becomes embroiled (thinks he does) in events beyond his ken
.... three things happen to turn Somerset divorce detective George Hawkins' view of life upside down. On the same day that he witnesses a hit'n run, his house is burgled and his live-in girlfriend disappears. As a psychological novel, this has the detective subsequently projecting his inner histories onto the puzzling events around him. While on another level 'Marks' becomes an historical novel, with its roots in the Japanese arena of WW2 and in post-War Japanese industrial success...
Excerpt
I've often thought, with my face and body, I was born to be a policeman. Imagine me big-boned with a flat MP's cap pulled down over my eyes, round chin jutting. I don't wear a cap now, favour anoraks and slacks for working, got a dark grey suit for court appearances, jumpers and cords for country walks and country pubs. Molly, my girlfriend of 3 years, kept trying to get me into jeans and tight shirts. But I knew what I was, and I wasn't going to be made ridiculous by fashion.
By this time though Molly had given up trying to change me; and my clothes had become a public grumble, public joke.
That was the outside of me. Inside?
Inside I was then, as I am now, my history. And my history is what this book is going to tell you.
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