Calibre (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312341442)

Inspector Brant is on the trail of a serial killer obsessed with sending Londoners an important message in this lightning-paced, hard-boiled noir from Ken Bruen, Calibre.

Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue-lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot attendant is rude to a series of customers, the "Manners Killer" makes sure that the next thing either sees is the beginning of his own grisly end.

When he starts mailing letters to the Southeast London police squad, he'll soon find out just how bad a man's manners can get. The Southeast is dominated by the perpetual sneer of one Inspector Brant, and while he might or might not agree with the killer's cause and can even forgive his tactics to some degree, Brant is just ornery enough to employ his trademark brand of amoral, borderline-criminal policing to the hunt for the Manners Killer. For if there's one thing that drives the incomparable inspector, it's the unshakeable conviction that if anyone is going to be getting away with murder on his patch, it'll be Brant himself, thank you very much.

Author: Ken Bruen
ISBN-10: 031234144X
ISBN-13: 9780312341442
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2006
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.72w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2006 pg. 72
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 18
Publishers Weekly 06/05/2006 pg. 40
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2006 pg. 547