Halo Parade

by Bill James

Book Overview

Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur investigates the case of a cocaine trafficking ring, with the help of a top-notch undercover man.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881502049
• ISBN13: 9780881502046
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Foul Play Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Another great one from James

The third in the Harpur and Iles series. Full of humor, grit, gripping dialogue, sex, drugs - what more could one want in a story? Harpur takes more than his share of tough breaks in this one, and Iles really starts to blossom as a character as well. The series keeps getting better and better.

Bill James is a breath of fresh air.

I have read several of Bill James' police procedurals and this is one of the best. The characters are highly original, the dialogue sparkles, and the descriptions are often poetic. (Example: "His brain shone like potato peelings.") The settings can be dark and sinister, but there is plenty of black humor in both this entry and in the series. James creates a morally ambiguous but fascinating world in 1980s/1990s Britain. I intend to buy every one of James's Harper & Iles mysteries.