Diminished responsibility - Hardcover

James Barnett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436033011 ISBN 13: 9780436033018

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1984

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From Publishers Weekly:

An anonymous caller warns the intelligence service that a robbery of the Aldwych Safety Deposit has netted a master burglar one box whose contents contain evidence scandalous enough to bring down the British government. Unsure whether his department is dealing with espionage or blackmail, its chief, Fairchild, realizes that interior security has been pierced. To protect the administration, he assigns two ex-agents, both of whom have been institutionalized in the past for mental disorders, to track down the box and the killer who has it. If the mission fails, Fairchild can mitigate the uproar by insisting that only lunatics were involved. Owen Smith, ex-detective chief superintendent, once confined for a psychotic episode, proves he has not only regained his sanity but is still acute as he picks up the trail. Such bizarre motivations as those attending the hunt are hardly conducive to steady plotting. But Barnett (Head of the Force keeps events moving and again treats his readers to a dazzling display of British underworld and police argot.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0436033011
• ISBN 13: 9780436033018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239