NORTHERN EX
by Colin Campbell
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Pub Date Aug 30 2017 | Archive Date Mar 08 2022
Description
Once a cop always a cop. Ex vice squad cop Vince McNulty copes with life outside the force by visiting the Northern X massage parlours he used to police. Until a return to his old stomping ground prompts a change in fortunes. Several girls have gone missing. All young masseuses. All from parlours that McNulty has visited. When one of them turns up dead everything points to a regular customer being involved. And McNulty is top of the list.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Campbell’s dark muscular prose suggests the best pulp writers of the 50s.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Very real. And very good.” - New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Child
“Campbell’s dark muscular prose suggests the best pulp writers of the 50s.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Very real. And very good.” - New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Child
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Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781947290242 |
PRICE | $0.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Northern Ex is a terrific crime thriller told from the point of view of a discharged police detective who is obsessed with massage parlors that he worked in as part of the vice squad, but now haunts on a regular basis. It opens slowly as the details of McNulty's massage are set out step by step, but don't think that it is a slow read. This book is not just well-written, but well-paced, building to a crescendo by the end. That's because McNulty is not the only one obsessed with the massage parlors and someone else is making the women and teenage girls disappear, often on a permanent basis.
It has all kinds of great themes like the cop who is always a cop even if he was dismissed from the force, the loneliness of McNulty as he struggles with who he now is without his badge, his determination to the right thing, and of course the theme of the innocent man on the run with all the evidence pointing towards him.
Some British thrillers are hard to access for an American audience, but not this one. It was quite easy to dive into and Campbell is one of those authors who probably should be more well known than he is.