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  Brickie: a bricklayer

  Brown: street name for heroin. Usually the complete reference would be a ‘bag of brown.’

  Brown bread: rhyming slang for dead

  Bun: small cake

  Bung: bribe

  Bunk: ‘do a bunk’ means escape

  Burger bar: hamburger fast-food restaurant

  Buy-to-let: buying a house/apartment to rent it out for profit

  Call sign: characters used to identify who’s broadcasting on police radio

  Cannon: slang for a firearm of any sort

  Car park: parking lot

  Care Home: an institution where old people are cared for

  Carrier bag: plastic bag from supermarket

  Charity Shop: thrift store

  Chat-up: flirt, trying to pick up someone with witty banter or compliments

  Chemist: pharmacy

  Childminder: someone who looks after children for money

  Chinwag: conversation

  Chippie: fast-food place selling chips and other fried food

  Chips: French fries but thicker

  Choring: theft, usually when referring to stealing from shops/shoplifting

  CID: Criminal Investigation Department

  Civvies: civilians who work for the police

  Civvy Street: civilian life (as opposed to army)

  Cling film: plastic wrap for food

  Clock: punch

  Clutch: a pedal that needs to be pushed in order to change gear in a manual car

  Cock and bull: made up, nonsense

  Cock up: mess up, make a mistake

  Common: an area of park land/ or lower class

  Comprehensive School (Comp.): high school

  Co-op: UK supermarket chain

  Cop hold of: grab

  Copper: police officer

  Cough it: a police term for someone admitting an offence in interview.

  Council: local government

  Coverall: coveralls, or boiler suit

  CPS: Crown Prosecution Service, decide whether police cases go forward

  Dabs: fingerprints

  Dan Dare: hero from Eagle comic

  Deck: hit (verb)

  Deck: one of the landings on a floor of a tower block

  Desperate Dan: very strong comic book character

  DI: detective inspector

  Digestive biscuit: plain cookie

  Disability benefit: in the UK, persons deemed illegible to seek or take on employment due to ill health are given an additional monthly payment called a ‘disability benefit.’

  Disqual driver: in the UK you can be disqualified from driving if you accrue twelve points or more (four offences where you receive three points for a simple speeding offence for example). There are also other ways to be disqual, such as being convicted for a drunk-drive offence.

  Do a runner: disappear

  Do one: go away

  Dooby: slang for a rolled-up cigarette containing marijuana

  Doc Martens: heavy boots with an air-cushioned sole

  Dog van: food truck usually found in industrial estates, large hardware store carparks or laybys to busy roads, these are mobile vans or trailers that serve fast food to passing customers.

  Donkey’s years: long time

  DS: detective sergeant

  Eagle: boys’ comic

  Early dart: to leave work early

  Early turn: early shift

  ED: accident and emergency department of hospital

  Effing: euphemism for fucking.

  Eggy soldiers: strips of toast with a boiled egg

  Enforcer: police battering ram

  Estate agent: realtor (US)

  Estate: public/social housing estate (similar to housing projects)

  Fag: cigarette

  Falklands War: war between Britain and Argentina in 1982

  Filth: police (insulting)

  FMO: force medical officer

  Forces: army, navy, and air force

  Fried slice: fried bread

  Fuzz: police

  Garda: Irish police

  Garden Centre: a business where plants and gardening equipment are sold

  Gavver: a popular slang word in some parts of the UK for a police officer. Especially among the gypsy community

  GBH: one of the most serious types of assault — stands for Grievous Bodily Harm.

  Geordie: from Newcastle

  Gob: mouth; can also mean phlegm or spit

  GP: general practitioner, a doctor based in the community

  Graft: hard work

  Gran: grandmother

  H: slang for the class A drug ‘Heroin’

  Habdabs: extreme anxiety

  Hancock: Tony Hancock, English comedian popular in 1950s

  Hard nut: tough person

  Hate crime: a hate crime is a crime committed against someone because of their race, nationality, religious beliefs or sexuality — this list is not exhaustive

  HGV: heavy goods vehicle, truck

  HMP: Her Majesty's Prisons

  HOLMES: UK police computer system used during investigation of major incidents

  Home: care home for elderly or sick people

  Inne: isn’t he

  Interpol: international police organisation

  Into care: a child taken away from their family by the social services

  IPCC: the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The commission that investigates potential wrong-doing by individual officers or police forces in the UK

  Mare: short for nightmare. e.g. ‘that bloke was a right mare in interview.’

  Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, applied to any strong woman

  ITU: intensive therapy unit in hospital

  JCB: a mechanical excavator

  Jerry-built: badly made

  Job (in police sense): if you respond to a 999 call as a UK police officer you may well refer to it as ‘going to a job’

  Lad: young man

  Lass: young woman

  Lift: elevator

  Lord Lucan: famous aristocrat who allegedly killed his children’s nanny and disappeared in 1974. Has never been found.

  Lorry: a truck

  Luftwaffe: German air force

  Milk float: these are becoming rarer in the UK. They are effectively electric flat-bed vans used to deliver milk to homes in the early hours of the morning

  Miss Marple: detective in a series of books by Agatha Christie

  Mobile phone: cell phone

  MOD: ministry of defence

  MP: Member of Parliament, politician representing an area

  Naff: lame, not good

  Nan: grandmother

  National Service: compulsory UK military service, ended in 60s

  Net curtains: a type of semi-transparent curtain

  NHS: National Health Service, public health service of UK

  Nick: police station (as verb: to arrest)

  Nowt: nothing

  Number ones: all UK police officers are issued a dress uniform which is then used for formal occasions throughout their career. Internally these are known as number ones

  Nursery: a place which grows plants, shrubs and trees for sale (often wholesale

  Nutter: insane person

  Old bag: old woman (insulting)

  Old Bill: police

  Online: houses and persons in the UK who sell drugs often notify their potential customers by sending out text messages. They will announce themselves as ‘online.’ This means they are open for business and there are drugs on the premises

  On the blink: broken

  Owt: anything

  P&O: ferry/shipping company

  Pants: underwear (noun); bad/rubbish/terrible (adjective)

  Para: paratrooper

  Pay-as-you-go: a cell phone you pay for calls in advance

  PC: police constable

  PCSO: Police Community Support Officer. Uniform officers who are not police officers but do some of the tasks that would otherwise be completed by officers />
  Petrol: gasoline

  Pillbox: a concrete building, partly underground, used as an outpost defence

  Pillock: fool

  Piss off: as exclamation, go away (rude). Also can mean annoy.

  Pissing down: raining

  Piss-take: a mocking act

  Pistol: an armed officer

  Planning Department: the local authority department which issues licences to build and develop property

  Playing field: sports field

  Pleb: ordinary person (often insulting)

  Plimsolls: a type of rubber-soled trainer (or sneaker)

  PNC: police national computer

  Po: slang term for the police. More often used by inner-city gangs of youths

  Portakabin: portable building used as temporary office etc.

  Post: mail

  Prat: silly idiot

  Premier League: top English soccer division

  PSD: Professional Standards Department

  PSNI: police service of Northern Ireland

  Public Analyst: scientists who perform chemical analysis for public protection purposes

  Pushchair: stroller

  RAF: Royal Air Force

  Rag: newspaper

  Raghead: offensive term for people thought to be of Middle Eastern origin

  Ram-raiding: robbery where a vehicle is rammed through a shop window

  Randy: horny

  Recce: reconnaissance

  Red Adair: famous oil well firefighter

  Resus: resuscitation room

  Right state: messy

  Ring: telephone (verb)

  Roadworks: repairs done to roads

  Royal Engineers: British army corps dealing with military engineering etc.

  RSPB: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

  RTC: road traffic collision

  Rugger: rugby (posh American football)

  RV: rendezvous point

  Sarge: sergeant

  SCO19: Specialist Crime and Operations Specialist Firearms Command

  Script: short for prescription. Heroin addicts are often prescribed a substance called methadone as a heroin alternative as part of weaning them off their addiction. Users will often refer to this as their ‘script’

  Scrote: low life

  Semi: semi-detached house, house with another house joined to it on one side only

  Shedload: a large amount

  Six bang: a stun grenade

  Shoeing: beating

  Shout the odds: talk in a loud bossy way

  SIO: senior investigating officer

  Sixth-form college: school for high school students in final two years

  Skag: often used in full as skaghead, slang for a heroin addict

  Skip: a large open container used for building waste

  Slapper: slag (offensive)

  Smackhead: heroin addict

  Snout: police informer

  SOCO: scene-of-crime officer

  Sod: an annoying person

  Solicitor: lawyer

  Sort: to do or make

  Sparky: electrician

  Spook: spy

  Squaddie: a soldier of low rank

  Stunner: beautiful woman

  Super: superintendent (police rank)

  Surveyor: someone who examines land and buildings professionally

  Sweeting: endearment, like sweetheart

  Tabloid: newspaper

  Tac Team: shorthand for tactical team. UK police forces have a number of tactical teams, these are often six constables and a sergeant and they are specialists in door entry, search, arrest strikes and some may be armed

  Tea towel: drying cloth

  Tea: dinner (Northern English)

  Tesco: huge supermarket chain in the UK.

  The sick: on state benefits for mental or physical disability

  Thief taker: term of praise for a police officer

  Three nines: an emergency call (as in 999)

  Till: cash register

  Tip: a mess

  Tipsy: a bit drunk

  Top himself: commit suicide

  Torch: flashlight

  Totty: attractive woman

  Tower block: tall building containing apartments (usually social housing)

  Trumpton: derogatory name for the fire service, often used by police

  Tutor: university teacher

  Upmarket: affluent or fancy

  Wacky baccy: cannabis

  Wally: silly person

  War Cry: Salvation Army magazine

  Wash: the washing machine

  Water board: company supplying water to an area

  White: street name in the UK for crack cocaine. Most street dealers offer both ‘brown and white,’ as it is common that they are used together

  White van man: typical working-class man who drives a small truck

  Widow’s weeds: black clothes worn by a widow in mourning

  Wilco: will comply, i.e. yes

  Wine gums: fruity chewy candy

  Wool-gathering: daydreaming

  WPC: Woman Police Constable (old-fashioned0

  Yob: a rude or aggressive youth or person

  CHARACTER LIST(contains spoilers)

  George Elms

  After the events of ‘Blood Money,’ the Crown Prosecution Service could offer no evidence in the trial against George Elms and he is released from prison. He can’t be sure of the threat around him and his family but almost immediately he is offered the opportunity to neutralise that threat. To go after Kane Forley. George will not be easy to work with, he will find it difficult to trust anyone and his vision of justice has become massively distorted. But he might be the only man that can find Lennockshire’s most wanted cop killer.

  George’s wife is Sarah, and his young daughter is Charley. He loves them dearly, they are the reason he keeps getting back up. But they still cannot be a family, not until the threat of Kane Forley is gone from their lives.

  Kane Forley

  Sees George Elms and Lennockshire Police as responsible for destroying his family. He has already had the force on its knees of two occasions and with George Elms’ release from prison he is intent on doing the same again. This is his end game. And his intention is to ensure it is also the end for those that have wronged him and his family.

  Darren Lewis

  Stepping up to lead Lennockshire Police following the death of the chief constable, he is faced with a police force that have no faith left in their senior management. He’s made little headway in finding the man that was responsible for the slaughter of his colleagues or in finding Helen Webb — the senior officer suspected to have been helping from within. Such is his desperation that he seeks assistance from George Elms. He convinces George that he might be the only man who can find their nemesis. But his real motive is clear; he believes that putting George Elms back at the front of this investigation will force their killer to come to the surface. Using George Elms as bait is risky. He’s unpredictable, sceptical, and of more concern, uncontrollable.

  Barry Lance

  Now an inspector, Barry Lance is Darren Lewis’ go-to man for tactical enforcement. His team is a highly trained and heavily armed search and strike team who were previously tasked with bringing in George Elms himself. The animosity between George and Barry remains, but they will need to put that aside and work together if they want to bring Kane Forley to justice.

  Barry is hiding his own battle in his personal life. A battle that is being fought every single day, threatening to cast a shadow over the rest of his life.

  Helen Webb

  The disgraced superintendent is on the run from a force that doesn’t seem to be chasing her. She believes Lennockshire Police are waiting for the right time, trying to keep a lid on her involvement for now. But George Elms has now been released from prison and this can only mean one thing — he will come looking for her. Helen needs to get out of the country and fast. And she thinks she might know a way.

  Sol Alcani

  T
he head of a crime family established in the county of Lennockshire. His crews are responsible for all sorts of criminality, from cash machine snatches to the movement of large amounts of drugs and guns. The family is still recovering from a day of action by Lennockshire Police where his home was raided. Senior members of the family remain in prison and his anger following the raid has only increased.

  Emily Ryker

  Lennockshire Police’s finest intelligence officer. Now established in the southern half of the county, she has kept the trust of senior management. Her portfolio has recently increased and she is now involved in undercover policing. Something she wishes she wasn’t. She is the first person George turns to on his release from prison— but that doesn’t seem to mean that he trusts her.

  Mick

  An undercover asset. No one is aware of his real identity. He reports to Lennockshire Police while working on a crew for the Alcani family. He wants out. But he’s in too deep to be able to walk away quietly.

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