Calibre

Resource Information

The work Calibre represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Calibre

Statement of responsibility

Ken Bruen

Creator

• Bruen, Ken

Subject

• London (England) -- Fiction
• Police -- England | London -- Fiction
• Psychopaths -- Fiction
• Brant, Detective Sergeant (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Serial murderers -- Fiction
• Mystery fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The Southeast London Police Squad is plagued by a serial murderer who's determined to give his victims a lesson in manners. The "Manners Killer" believes that anyone who behaves rudely in public (e.g., verbally abuses a store clerk, slaps a child) is fair game. He soon finds that he's no match for Brant, Bruen's amoral, sociopathic brute of a detective. While his methods may be questionable, Brant gets results, and we find ourselves secretly cheering him on. Meanwhile, Brant is writing his first crime novel, Calibre, and aspires to become the English Joseph Wambaugh. Of course, he doesn't let the fact that he can't write deter him; Brant just nicks the stories from his cop buddy Porter Nash

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6052.R785

LC item number

C35 2006

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries