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Beginning to End
For some the 1960's were their halcyon days. For so many others, lucky enough to have survived the 1960's, it ended as no more than an an era of depravity.
This is the 'real' hard story of 'swinging' London, England in the Wild & Crazy 1960's as seen through the eyes of two New Scotland Yard Detectives; DI Andy Spearing and DS Kevin Devlin and an Assassin known simply as 'The Fox.'
This is the 'real' hard story of 'swinging' London, England in the Wild & Crazy 1960's as seen through the eyes of two New Scotland Yard Detectives; DI Andy Spearing and DS Kevin Devlin and an Assassin known simply as 'The Fox.'
447 pages, Paperback
First published April 19, 2017
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July 17, 2019
First of all all three fiction books by Paul Hughes have been re-released with brand new eye catching covers during April 2019.
Beginning to End is book 1 has an eye catching in the sixties design on the front, that I totally loved.
I do like reading fiction stories about the police and here I have found a new crime author to follow.
Let me start by saying that all these characters that I'm going to introduce you to are pure fictional.
I could imagine the setting.
In the centre of a raised platform behind a long table sat no less than Sir Mark Wright the police commissioner for the metropolitan police. He's the boss for the whole of London Met.
In turn each person will speak about themselves.
Kay Turner is a civilian primarily responsible for The London Met, information and communications, including the computerised police criminal records, including the payroll.
Charlie Wayne is a civilian had studied computer science in Houston. His ambition is to be at the start of a large computerised programme in the UK
Tony Raeburn he's responsible for the Fraud Squad, investigating fraud and money laundering in the Uk and on an international scale.
Nigel Worthington he is also a civilian he too specialised in fraud in the UK and international business.
Detective Inspector Jonathan Bright , his department is Drug Squad.
Adrian Porterhouse dressed in jeans, he works on the streets, making him look approachable for a drugs deal.
Andy Spearing is attached to The Mets murder and serious crime squad
DS Kevin Devlin read criminology at Cambridge University and qualified with honours, he followed up with psychology, a three year course with honours.
Doctor Harvey he is also a civilian he just been offered the position as Head of a Forensic in Scotland Yard
David Arkwright never wanted to do anything else but Forensics.
Joseph Lyall he worked for the Director of Public Prosecutions, he prepares cases based on evidence presented by the police or forces for example M15 for the Crown Prosecution Service.
Judith Clements is a civil servant working for the Crown Prosecution Officer.
What I liked the best about this crime book is that it all seemed so real, liked it really happened.
After reading this thriller I thought to myself how did the author Paul Hughes pull of such a brilliant book, well I found out at the back, many of his friends who were in the UK in the Sixties group plus his friends in the police gave Paul Hughyhis background for all his novels.
The other two books by Paul Hughes are Running Amok Book 2, that's been re edited & republished with a new cover April 2019
And
Revenge Is Mine Book 3 series has been republished.
Beginning to End is book 1 has an eye catching in the sixties design on the front, that I totally loved.
I do like reading fiction stories about the police and here I have found a new crime author to follow.
Let me start by saying that all these characters that I'm going to introduce you to are pure fictional.
I could imagine the setting.
In the centre of a raised platform behind a long table sat no less than Sir Mark Wright the police commissioner for the metropolitan police. He's the boss for the whole of London Met.
In turn each person will speak about themselves.
Kay Turner is a civilian primarily responsible for The London Met, information and communications, including the computerised police criminal records, including the payroll.
Charlie Wayne is a civilian had studied computer science in Houston. His ambition is to be at the start of a large computerised programme in the UK
Tony Raeburn he's responsible for the Fraud Squad, investigating fraud and money laundering in the Uk and on an international scale.
Nigel Worthington he is also a civilian he too specialised in fraud in the UK and international business.
Detective Inspector Jonathan Bright , his department is Drug Squad.
Adrian Porterhouse dressed in jeans, he works on the streets, making him look approachable for a drugs deal.
Andy Spearing is attached to The Mets murder and serious crime squad
DS Kevin Devlin read criminology at Cambridge University and qualified with honours, he followed up with psychology, a three year course with honours.
Doctor Harvey he is also a civilian he just been offered the position as Head of a Forensic in Scotland Yard
David Arkwright never wanted to do anything else but Forensics.
Joseph Lyall he worked for the Director of Public Prosecutions, he prepares cases based on evidence presented by the police or forces for example M15 for the Crown Prosecution Service.
Judith Clements is a civil servant working for the Crown Prosecution Officer.
What I liked the best about this crime book is that it all seemed so real, liked it really happened.
After reading this thriller I thought to myself how did the author Paul Hughes pull of such a brilliant book, well I found out at the back, many of his friends who were in the UK in the Sixties group plus his friends in the police gave Paul Hughyhis background for all his novels.
The other two books by Paul Hughes are Running Amok Book 2, that's been re edited & republished with a new cover April 2019
And
Revenge Is Mine Book 3 series has been republished.
November 3, 2017
"Beginning to End” is a great piece of action/crime/ suspense/ thriller fiction no one should miss reading if they are looking for an adventurous, entertaining read that has high stakes and an incredibly unpredictable plot. If you're looking for a work lacking in cliché then I must say that you might have a bone to pick with this, as there were many ‘familiar’ elements that made me almost feel at times that I had read it before (I haven’t). But I believe the author's job is not to be completely original (for is there such a thing as true originality, especially in the police and crime game?) here but rather to tell a powerful story with interesting characters that stays with you. For I believe that the true future for the genre lies not in becoming ‘newer’ but rather by taking old heroic tales and telling them better. This is done nicely here and I am impressed with the way that Paul Hughes can tell a story in his own way with characters that we love, or love to hate. I looked forward to my reading time each evening and was sad when it was over. Hope he has other books in this series soon.
August 2, 2019
I abandoned this book as the narrative did not hold my interest. I found the story line dated and pedantic. Cluttered with unnecessary detail , which slowed down what narrative there was. Not for me.
January 22, 2018
After reading the first few chapters, I was ready to quit reading this book. I decided to continue on and try to get into the book. I am really glad I did. I got hooked. My only complaints were several grammatical errors, mixing up DI Sanderson and DI Spearing in the story, and at the end, you don't know what happens to DI Spearing. It was interesting that a large majority of the story was told in first person by Detective Sergeant Kevin Devlin, one of the "trained brains".
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