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To Hell In A Handcart
''To Hell in a Handcart'' (2001) is a controversial dystopian novel by English journalist Richard Littlejohn. Mickey French is an ex-cop and firearms expert who was invalided out after many years in the profession. He and his family have a bad day out at a theme park and a social worker threatens his son with jail, helped by a bent lawyer. But Mickey has a get out of jail free card in the form of evidence that a top lawyer and a top cop broke the law in their early days. He uses it to get his son off. The pair want the evidence back as it could ruin their careers so they employ a Romanian criminal who is in trouble with the police (and the Russian mafia Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (, ), otherwise known as Bratva (), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. The initialism OPG is Organized Criminal (''prestupnaya'' in Russian) Gr ...) for a petty crime, to burn down Mickey's house, and the evidence. Mickey m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Hell In A Handcart
''To Hell in a Handcart'' (2001 in literature, 2001) is a controversial Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian novel by English journalist Richard Littlejohn. Mickey French is an ex-cop and firearms expert who was invalided out after many years in the profession. He and his family have a bad day out at a theme park and a social worker threatens his son with jail, helped by a bent lawyer. But Mickey has a get out of jail free card in the form of evidence that a top lawyer and a top cop broke the law in their early days. He uses it to get his son off. The pair want the evidence back as it could ruin their careers so they employ a Romanians, Romanian criminal who is in trouble with the police (and the Russian mafia) for a petty crime, to burn down Mickey's house, and the evidence. Mickey meanwhile has packed his family off to Florida (after local gypsies broke into his house, wrecked it and killed his cat as a warning to him) and not feeling like bed, nods off in a chair only to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |