"Cock-up" appears to be a delightfully beguiling British phrase to describe what we Americans would call a major "fuck-up." Both of those euphemisms apply to the events described in this book. Seymour writes well and has a decidedly jaundiced view of virtually every layer of society except perhap...
I enjoyed this, no doubt about that.It had very many more strands than the blurb on the back would have led you to believe. Yes, one of the central characters is a disgraced ex-soldier seeking redemption by taking on drug dealers on his London sink estate. But there is, as always with Seymour, so...
This is one of the stirring books I have read in recent times. Maybe old-age is catching up to me and I am becoming sentimental but still Seymour has a way of giving blended and blistered edges to his characters. Nobody is described as being larger-than-life, and at the end of the story pragmatis...
thrown out of the ss for insubordination, gord brown is ow on a remote salmon farm in scotland. h/e evrything changes when he is approached by 3 guatemalan indians whop r desperately seeking for s fighting man (hence the title) someone to mastermind an uprising against the brutal military dictato...
