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Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a working class family, he could easily have been a poster boy for the force’s stated commitment to equal opportunities. Joining just after the 9/11 attacks, Kevin entered policing determined to keep communities safe in the face of a changing world.
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Adam Price has a lot to lose: a beautiful family, a big house, a good job – a perfect life. But then he meets a stranger in a bar and learns a devastating secret about his wife. With the mirage of perfection shattered, Adam finds himself caught up in something far darker than his wife’s deception. And if he doesn’t make the right moves, the conspiracy he’s stumbled into will not only ruin lives – it will end them.
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Just as DCI Banham and DI Alison Grainger are about to get married, the previous night of street rioting culminates in a policeman being shot and all available officers are urgently called to the scene. Banham, a trained hostage negotiator, rushes to the street when he hears his friend, PC Martin Neville, has been shot, dragged into a local warehouse and taken hostage, along with WPC Hannah Kemp and three civilians. As Banham tries to negotiate, things go from dangerous to critical. PC Neville is in a life-threatening condition, and the clock is ticking to get him to hospital. Meanwhile Grainger, having been left at the alter and told not to join the siege, defies orders and is at the station working on the case from the CCTV room. When the pieces begin to fall together, she goes off on her own, only to find herself, too, in a life-threatening situation.
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John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, he experienced all that is extraordinary about a life in blue: saving lives, finding the lost, comforting the broken and helping to take dangerous people off the streets. But for every case with a happy ending, there were others that ended in desperate sadness, and in 2013 John suffered a major breakdown. ‘Blue’ is his memoir of crime and calamity, of adventure and achievement, of friendship and failure, of serious illness and slow recovery.
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This is a work of narrative non-fiction based on the last days of the fugitive Raoul Moat, a Geordie bodybuilder and mechanic who became nationally notorious in Britain one hot summer’s week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend’s new lover, shooting her in the stomach, and blinding a policeman, he disappeared into the woods of Northumberland, evading discovery for seven days – even when TV tracker Ray Mears was employed by the police to find him. Eventually, cornered by the police, Moat shot himself. Here, Andrew Hankinson tells Moat’s story in the second person, which means that the reader is uncomfortably close at all times to Raoul Moat.
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‘Blue’ is a memoir of crime and calamity, of adventure and achievement, of friendship and failure, of laughter and loss, of the best and the worst of humanity, of serious illness and slow recovery. With searing honesty, it offers an immensely moving and personal insight into what it is to be a police officer in Britain today.
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Adam and Corinne confront the shocking secret on which their marriage is built – leaving Adam wondering whether he ever truly knew Corinne at all.
