The Taming of Tango Harris

by Graham Ison

The body of a murdered prostitute, a black nylon stocking around her neck, is found in a fashionable West End hotel. A few hours later, across London, a lorry is hijacked, the driver abducted and left trussed up in a field, while another man is shot dead, his corpse dumped in the boot of a stolen car. To Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox of the Flying Squad the lorry heist bears all the hallmarks of one Thomas Walter Harris - known as Tango on account of his nifty footwork at the New Cross Palais during his somewhat murky youth - and the dead man worked for Harris’s rival gangleader, Billy Crombie. Together, the two gangs - involved in every imaginable form of nefarious activity - make up the nastiest gathering of villainry that Fox has encountered for some time.

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