It is 1844...and a vicious gang of robbers and thugs is terrorising a remote region of East Anglia. Rapacious, bloodthirsty and depraved, they have fled the London 'peelers' via the new railway to hide out in the small market town of Hamwyte, where there is no effective law and the pickings are easy ...isolated mansions and lonely farmhouses are burgled with impunity, their owners brutally tortured, their womenfolk viciously assaulted. The gang laugh at authority ...no act is too savage for them, no evil too great ...not even murder. The county constabulary - less than four years old - is looking for a man to bring them to justice and the county's chief constable turns to one of its first inspectors, Joseph Harrington, a former able seaman and battler against smugglers ...backed up by a new constable, Tom Tedder, a corn miller's son...
- ISBN10 1447652002
- ISBN13 9781447652007
- Publish Date 27 September 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English