Men From Boys

ISBN: 0099461528
Author: John Harvey
Description:
What does it mean to be a father? What does it mean to be a son? What does it mean to be a man? Gathered together in this anthology are sixteen short stories and a novella from some of the masters of crime fiction who answer these questions in myriad ways. These are worlds that are instantly recognisable and believable yet as widely apart as a deprived London housing estate and the trenches of the First World War, the claustrophobia of a late-night back room poker game or a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan and the slow but irrevocable decay of the small New England town. Again and again - but never two ways the same - the people who inhabit these stories are having to determine what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them self-respect.

Listed Copies of this Book

There are no copies of this book listed

Rough TreatmentA kilo of cocaine was hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the ...
No. of listed copies: 0
Easy Meat (a Resnick Novel)A Charlie Resnick crime novel.
No. of listed copies: 1
Darkness And LightRetired DI Frank Elder's estranged wife needs a favour...a friend's sister, unassumng, mid-fifties has gone missing. A she investigates, he begins to draw parallels with his first (and unsolved) case with the Serious Cri...
No. of listed copies: 0
Living Proof (a Resnick Novel)When a man is found in the middle of Alfreton Road in the early hours of a Sunday morning, stark naked and bleeding heavily from a chest wound, he is the latest victim in a series of vicious attacks on men. But enquiries...
No. of listed copies: 0
Last RitesLorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick want...
No. of listed copies: 0

see all books for John Harvey

Violets Are Blue by James Patterson
Fans of James Patterson's resourceful black cop Alex Cross will be relieved to find that he's back on familiar...
No. of listed copies: 5
Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery (the Inspector Banks Ser by Peter Robinson
It should have been a cosy scene - log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. ...
No. of listed copies: 0
A Place Of Safety by Caroline Graham
When ex-vicar Lionel Lawrence opens his rambling rectory to a stream of young offenders he has no idea the con...
No. of listed copies: 0
Whip Hand by Dick Francis
Certainty for the Guineas is nobbled and scandal threatens The Jockey Club. Plenty of horse doping expertise a...
No. of listed copies: 1
Loverboy by Richard Belsky
A serial killer thriller which keeps the reader guessing right up to its conclusion. In 1978 the Loverboy murd...
No. of listed copies: 0

See all listings in Crime

This book has not yet been rated