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ENEMY WITHIN

by Roger Cottrell, Photography by Steve Da Poire

317 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1642; ISBN 1-4120-6731-6; US$27.50, C$31.50, EUR22.50, £16.00

1985 and the myths are still in town. A serial killer stalks the Mining Villages of Strike torn West Yorkshire.

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About the Book

The first girl was found on a Tuesday morning and rumours of a Yorkshire Ripper copycat were circulating the factory like a flu virus, when DS Terry Ackrington arrived for work that morning. Neither the station Super or his own DI were particularly pleased.

It is 1985 and thanks to the Miners Strike, emotions are running high in West Yorkshire. To be a cop under these conditions is to be vilified. To be the Enemy Within. Now, they*ve a serial killer on their hands stalking young women in Gerry Healy*s WRP.

Terry Ackrington is a DS on the horns of a dilema. His father is a retired miner dying of silicosis and his brother Johnnie, a striking miner, has recently joined the Workers Revolutionary Party. Family pressure on Terry to hand in his papers is enormous. Then, Susan Higgins is brutally murdered by the Wolverly Pimpernel * the butt end of a deadly, pornographic joke.

Terry promises the mother of the dead girl he will find the killer. This reinforces his alienation from his family. But things get worse when evidence points to a member of the WRP Security Directorate. Or of MI5. Or both

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About the Author

Roger Cottrell was a crime reporter and member of the Workers Revolutionary Party during the Miners Strike. He was involved in the struggle to depose Gerry Healy as leader of the WRP and was later on its central committee. He did documentary work in the 1990s and then attended film school in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, to study for his MA. He is a novelist and movie script writer with a script development company, Blind Samurai Films, based in his native West Midlands. His PHD, at Queens University Belfast, was on British Crime Films. He teaches part time at Queens in the Department of English and is a Visiting Tutor at Wolverhampton Film School and throughout the West Midlands.

Roger Cottrell writes crime thrillers both as novels and for the scren. He is creator of the Alan Kemp series of crime movies featuring the tough black detective in Roger*s native Birmingham. He also writes crime retrospectives, e.g. on the Assasination of Aldo Moro, The Wilson Plots and Bridget Rose Dugdale and also writes horror novels under the name of Rory MacOiter

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