About the Book
The world stands at the dawn of a new Millennium, but the future holds little promise for Detective Inspector Jack Mowgley. The Special Branch officer nominally in command of a major continental ferry port is a casualty of a costly divorce and rapidly-changing attitudes in the police force. DEADLY TIDE opens with the world on the brink of a new millennium. A beachcomber finds a Hermes Birkin designer bag containing a large amount of heroin, and an even larger amount of banknotes, and two arms. Meanwhile, a cleaner on board a cross-Channel ferry boat finds a limbless and headless body in a luxury cabin. At his temporary lodgings above the Midnight Tindaloo, our hero is awoken with the grim news by his fiercely loyal assistant, drinking companion and confidante, Sergeant Catherine McCarthy. To other members of the City force, she is a strikingly attractive, clever but often prickly officer. To Mowgley she is his muse and mate Melons, but he is the only person on earth allowed her to call her that. After opening the Trunk Murder case, Mowgley and Melons find themselves following a trail across the Channel which becomes increasingly littered with dead bodies...and body parts.
Table of Contents:
About the Author; Deadly Tide Main Characters; Offender Profile; Part One ,Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight; Nine, Ten, Part Two, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty One, Part Three, Twenty Two, Twenty three, Twenty Four, Twenty five, Twenty Six, Twenty Seven, Part Four; Twenty Eight, Twenty Nine, Thirty, Thirty One, Thirty Two, Thirty Three, Epilogue; Case Summary; Glossary; Death Duty; One; Two; Three.
About the Author :
Whilst seeking a vocation to suit his talents, George East occupied himself as a pipe fitter, welder and plumber, private detective, film and TV extra, club bouncer and DJ, demolition engineer, labourer, bread and lemonade rounds man, brewer's drayman, magazine editor, pickled onion manufacturer, snooker club and hotel manager, publican, failed rock god, TV and radio presenter, PR and marketing honcho, seamstress... and the world's first and probably only professional bed tester. He gained his early knowledge of police procedure and attitudes as a result of a number of arrests for violent behaviour in his extreme youth. In the 1980s, he gained more of an understanding of and a definite affinity for plain clothes policemen while running an inner-city pub which acted as a local (and once as a murder room) for a whole police station's-worth of CID officers.
Review :
What our readers say about Jack Mowgley; I was totally absorbed as the tale unfolded, not so much by the plot, but by waiting for the next assault on political correctness; Refreshingly and hilariously non PC; Make way for a new anti hero. A triumph for Mr East; The character was so beautifully flawed, the plot inventive and the humour original; Regular readers of George East productions will recognise the sharp witticisms, the keen eye for the absurd, and the understanding of the human condition.
