The Judas Sheep

by Stuart Pawson

Book Overview

ere aren't many writers who can make you laugh out loud and have you on the brink of tears in the space of a few pages? -- Crime Time This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747249474
• ISBN13: 9780747249474
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

DI Charlie Priest: Always a Very Good Character

If you like British copper novels & British humor you'll like these novels by Mr. Pawson. While out on a temporary disability, DI Priest can't stay away from the murder, mayhem & the chase. A very likable character, with the dry Brit humor he sets about trying to solve a number of murders which are all connected. The villains are ruthless; the chief bad guy being over the edge in the sanity department. The villains are all Brits hired by an extremely wealthy American tobacco magnate who splits his time between the U.S. & United Kingdom. The book has a number of sub-plots. Some are crucial to the main story. Others are much weaker & , I felt, detracted from the book. It's a very enjoyable & solid British crime novel with very good characters The book hits the ground running. It's action starts from the onset

Gritty and Enjoyable

Stuart Pawson had a career as a mining engineer He followed this with a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. He lives in the pleasant waterside village of Fairburn in Yorkshire. The author's writing is gritty and to the point added to which he has a likeable sense of humour that he usually incorporates into his books, all of which I have found enjoyable. DI Charlie Priest is mulling over the fact that as the saying goes a copper is never off duty. Although supposedly on sick leave he has been asked to keep an eye on a well known drugs courier, who uses the Hull-Rotterdam route on a regular basis. He is also concerned for the safety of his girlfriend as she spies on a tobacco company and their sales operation in Africa. Stuart Pawson's books are to me at least, a cut above the average crime novel. As I said earlier, he has a dry wit that transmits itself to the reader and makes the reading of his books that much more enjoyable an experience.