Face Down

by Garry Bushell

Harry Tyler is living an unhappy life as a "dead man" following a failed MI5 conspiracy to kill him in Ireland. A right wing journalist in a popular paper is saying all the things his readers want to hear, laying blame for the country's ills at the doors of immigration, the welfare state, scroungers, and spongers. But when the people he targets in his column wind up dead, a serial killer seems to be taking the law into his own hands.

Harry Tyler is surviving on his wits in the North West of England until fate conspires to reunite him with villain and nemesis John Baker, known as Johnny Too, when Too is released from jail early as bait for the serial killer. The job could bring Harry back in from the cold, or leave him totally exposed and set up as the fall guy if things go wrong. The final installment of The Face trilogy is hard, sexy, and it rattles along like an HS2 freight train.

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First published October 16, 2013

About the author

English newspaper columnist, OI! music journalist, television presenter, author, musician and political activist. Bushell also sings in the Cockney OI! bands GBX and the Gonads. He managed the New York City Oi! band Maninblack until the death of the band frontman Andre Schlessinger. Bushell's recurring topical themes are comedy, country and class. He has campaigned for an English Parliament, a Benny Hill statue and for variety and talent shows on TV. His TV column Bushell on the Box still appears weekly in the Daily Star Sunday, and he writes for the Arts & Entertainment section of the Sunday Express.

Reviews

[Darren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Punchy, funny and steams along like a bullet train with no brakes

[Gavin Gates · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok, so, this will be a review on two separate accounts. On the first part this is the closing book in a trilogy, it is not har to get to grips with the characters and follow in, the basics of it are all pretty straight up London gangster/tough guy stuff but that is by no means meant to sound a bad thing. The writing is sharp and Bushell is really on the ball.
Secondly, the novel is short, a short sharp shock would be an apt description, easy to fly through in a night with no problem. I did enjoy it enough that I went straight to a large internet retailer and buy the series for my kindle. NOW, this is where it got entertaining, the trilogy is the bollocks, when you get it from the beginning it is a belter. The characters are as entertaining as it gets and it is so fast paced you don’t have a hope in hell of putting it down. I did have my reservations as the whole UK gangster underworld thing for me usually just doesn’t wash but the Harry Tyler series really stands out from the crowd.
Just remember though Garry, Punk’s Not Dead!

[David Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

F#@king brilliant

Like they say third time lucky and all that..
I'm glad I read it but only because I've now read them all..