Cracker: To Be a Somebody

by Gareth Roberts

Book Overview

Letting his last cent ride on the roulette wheel, taking a long drag off a cigarette with a shot of whiskey in hand: Fitz is a happy man.But all is not well in his beloved Manchester. A brutal racial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312200862
• ISBN13: 9780312200862
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Series of Novelizations That Improve on the Source

I HATE novelizations. But these done for the great British TV mystery series starring Robbie Coltrane actually improve upon the teleplays, adding rich details and psychological insight to the already intense plots. These books could easily stand alone as a great series of psychological crime novels, unified in tone despite the fact that half a dozen different suthors have been involved in their creation. Leave it to the Brits to once again do the impossible. First The Battle of Britain, now this...