Gold from copper Derek!

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walm

10,609 posts

202 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Downloading now.

Nightmare

5,184 posts

284 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Derek Smith said:
Thanks, guys.

I'd be pathetically grateful for any feedback, including criticisms and ideas. Comments on Amazon helps sales of course.

No stalkers though. I remember what happened to J. K. Rowling.
Ah.....shame.....should have said that earlier. I'll try and be moderately restrained as stalkers go.....

BliarOut

72,857 posts

239 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Is it on iBooks?

walm

10,609 posts

202 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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BliarOut said:
Is it on iBooks?
You know there is a kindle app for iPhone and iPad - right?
I do most of my reading on my iPhone.
I just blamed my developing blindness on onanism.

BliarOut

72,857 posts

239 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Why would I know that, I only run an IT company... biggrin

Derek Smith

45,581 posts

248 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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walm said:
I just blamed my developing blindness on onanism.
I've never heard it called that before. Not funny I suppose, but true.

Nightmare

5,184 posts

284 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Are we allowed to spot edit? Found a thought instead of a though, and a to instead if a too. And i think a sentence is missing its end......

Also....the home die maker....what was he marking n the pills? Logos for prescription drugs?

Bloody great read so far!

BigBob

1,471 posts

225 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Cyberprog said:
No need, all you need is an amazon account and the Kindle for PC (Or Mac!) Application. If you've got an Android Phone, there's an app for that, and there may even be an app for iPhones as well...
Erhh - in theory. I've downloaded the Kindle for PC program from Amazon but the 'Computer still says NO!' Doesn't recognise that I have so won't let me download any books.

I'll try and sort it out when I get a minute but meantime have PM'd Derek as I can't wait to start reading it smile

BB

pacman1

7,318 posts

193 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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There's always a free app link to Kindle on Amazon, which you can install on your pc to read stuff.

OldJohnnyYen

1,455 posts

149 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Gone for it, hope it's good.

Agrilla

834 posts

183 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Great! Looking forward to reading it - thanks OP for the heads up, and thanks Derek for writing it!

wildcat45

8,060 posts

189 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Loving it, reading it on my Ipad, and when out shopping with Mrs Wildcat45, on the iphone.

Love the stories surrounding the City. My old man was a Fleet Street Journalist and used to tell me all sorts of tales about that part of London, took me to a few of the boozers too!

A really great read - I've been telling people about the Queen Mum Wink story.

Just my sort of book. Cheers. Dan.

jimmyjimjim

7,332 posts

238 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Bought it yesterday - very good!

Interestingly, it does highlight one slight inconsistency of amazon - amazon.com were about 10p cheaper at the current exchange rate (negated once you take currency conversion into account), but it worked in my favour this time.

I'm particularly enjoying "After a few minutes of inaction the dog would relax its jaws slightly and the war of nerves would continue until the handler gave one word of command then hit the dog to make it let go."

"Denzil was less conformist and instead chose to leap onto the person’s back, take them to the ground and then try to bugger them."

Cyberprog

2,187 posts

183 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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BigBob said:
Erhh - in theory. I've downloaded the Kindle for PC program from Amazon but the 'Computer still says NO!' Doesn't recognise that I have so won't let me download any books.

I'll try and sort it out when I get a minute but meantime have PM'd Derek as I can't wait to start reading it smile

BB
You do need to sign into the kindle app before you can start downloading the books. You buy them on your amazon account then, and it'll have registered the kindle app with your account, and then should deliver the book to your app when you open/refresh it.

renmure

4,221 posts

224 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Just downloading it onto the Kindle app on iPad.
bedtime reading methinks smile

24seven

7 posts

152 months

Sunday 29th July 2012
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Just purchased from Amazon.

jimmyjimjim

7,332 posts

238 months

Sunday 29th July 2012
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Christ, it must have been depressing and frustrating to have been around for countryman.

What happened to the Sergeant whose volvo was used in the payroll job?

Steve Zodiac

314 posts

143 months

Sunday 29th July 2012
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Got it from Amazon

Derek Smith

45,581 posts

248 months

Sunday 29th July 2012
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jimmyjimjim said:
Christ, it must have been depressing and frustrating to have been around for countryman.

What happened to the Sergeant whose volvo was used in the payroll job?
I met one of the officers who interviewed me a couple of years later and we got on well. He told me a few things in confidence and I mentioned the sergeant. He said he was not an easy interviewee. I suppose most officers know what he means, and the majority of people can guess.

He was given some info from an informant regarding a shotgun found on premises of a known villain. RCS had searched and found two shotguns, one sawn-off and therefore S1 so higher penalty, wrapped in oiled leather in the hot water tank cupboard. The intact gun had turned out to be the property of a serving Met PC who had 'loaned' the shotgun to a friend in an RCS, not the one involved in the search.

This Countryman chap had taken the two shotguns to the premises to try and place them in the cupboard. Even the sawn-off wouldn't go in on its own, let alone the full size one. And that was without the oiled cloth.

The 'offender', presumably having offended the RCS, was still kept inside despite the finding of false statements as he had been found guilty of two much more serious offences so had not actually been punished for the possession.

Corrupt practice for no reason. It's bewildering. What also confused me was the inept way in which many went corrupt. I was fitted up once but there were documents that proved my side, most of which had been completed by other people. I wondered at the time if it was a warning but that would have implied some degree of planning and I saw little of that. The corrupt ones were cowboys.

The publisher who read the book did not believe the story, or rather said that many readers would not believe it which, in my book - see what I did there? - meant she didn't believe it, presumably that the officers would not have tested their fit-up. However, from what I was told, many of the corrupt ones were exposed by such simple methods.

The Countryman officer never got any further than inspector (nor did I but that was for other reasons) the rumour being that he was not considered 'one of us' after being on Countryman. That said, he was used on a number of jobs where trustworthiness was a major requirement, like bagman to someone important.

It was depressing and frustrating, as you say, but, as I said in the book, I was described as 'wide as narrow tape' by one of the bent ones and this put me in a group where there were some real quality officers. I was proud to work with them.

When you see a quality cop in action it really is impressive.

broken biscuit

1,633 posts

201 months

Sunday 29th July 2012
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Bought this off the back of this thread. A cracking read. 30% throught it according to my Kindle App. Will finish it tomorrow at this rate. From a relatively new in service frontline PC, the reality of it is fantastic, and could only have been written by a proper cop, not an office jockey with fancy epaulettes.