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Jan 1, 2001 · 814 ratings58 reviews. August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and consequences that reverberate across three decades.
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- Jake Arnott
Mar 23, 2008 · He Kills Coppers: Directed by Adrian Shergold. With Mel Raido, Liam Garrigan, Rafe Spall, Steven Robertson. Three policemen are brutally murdered during the 1966 World Cup celebrations.
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- Crime, Drama
- Adrian Shergold
- 2008-03-23
Review Posted Online: May 20th, 2010. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15th, 2001. The London criminal underground that was such an ebullient presence in Arnott's terrific debut, The Long Firm (1999), is likewise the setting and subject of this ambitious but disappointing successor.
- Jake Arnott
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6 April 2008. ( 2008-04-06) He Kills Coppers is a three-part television drama, broadcast on ITV between 23 March and 6 April 2008. The drama stars Mel Raido, Liam Garrigan and Rafe Spall, and involves the death of three police officers during the celebrations of the 1966 World Cup. The story explores the three men most connected with the deaths.
336 pages. 7.99GBP. ISBN: 034074880X. Buy in the UK | Buy in Canada. HE KILLS COPPERS is the second in the loose trilogy begun in THE LONG FIRM and completed in TRUE CRIME. The book opens in the 1960s, that decade that everyone remembers whether they were there or not. (Arnott was born in 1961.)
User Reviews. For a mainstream drama on ITV, 'He Kills Coppers' is remarkably harsh, complex and realistic; a long way from conventional serial-killer cliché. An enigmatic villain, and the under-Britain he inhabits, is set against a story of corrupt policeman: there's certainly promise in the premise.
Synopsis. Three policemen are brutally murdered during the 1966 World Cup celebrations. "He Kills Coppers" follows three men connected to the deaths; Frank (a fellow policeman), Tony (an...
