30-07-2009, 12:10 PM
I've been searching for a copy of "Untouchables: Dirty Cops, Bent Justice and Racism in Scotland Yard" at a reasonable price. It covers the past 10 years or so and is probably THE most meticulously researched and hard hitting expose of Metropolitan Police Force corruption ever written - so I'm told anyway. Oh dear! risky business - powerful peoples' interests jeopardised etc etc. It is out of print. A telephone call and dogged persistence about speaking to someone in authority at the Edinburgh publishers confirmed that there were no plans for a 2nd edition in spite of the fact that the best price I could find in the UK was approaching £100 per copy. The guy I spoke to did NOT want to talk about it.
Anyway, £100 being a bit outside my per-book budget, I thought I'd see if it was available from a local library. The usual searches revealed that it was only available in 4 locations outside the British Library UK-wide!
Guess which the nearest one to me was?
HM Prison, Sudbury library. Hey Ho.
Anyway, £100 being a bit outside my per-book budget, I thought I'd see if it was available from a local library. The usual searches revealed that it was only available in 4 locations outside the British Library UK-wide!
Guess which the nearest one to me was?
HM Prison, Sudbury library. Hey Ho.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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