JG NEVILLE

South London Crime Novels

GOLD IS GRIEF

The sequel to “Ordinary Decent Blaggers” sees “Moose” and his crew pull one last job to set themselves up.

It’s 1984. In the aftermath of a huge bullion robbery, three men are in custody but the bullion has vanished. South London car dealer, Kostas Moustrianos, knows who’s got it and sees an opportunity to profit. The men who have it, have other ideas. So do the police.

The Met appoint a new DCI to coordinate the search, but corruption and territorial squabbling hamper the investigation while Customs, Special Branch and Flying Squad each pursue their own agendas.

Meanwhile, the villains are at each other’s throats and the bodies pile up.

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ORDINARY DECENT BLAGGERS

It's 1981 in South London. Without internet or mobiles, communication is by post and landline telephone. Police radios work, sometimes. Political correctness and DNA profiling have yet to be invented.

Two men carry out a simple robbery but fall into a cauldron of paranoia, deceit, duplicity and revenge involving family, friends and bent coppers.

A fast moving story from an era when "blagging" was the usual method used by villains to get rich quick.

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JG Neville’s novels are inspired by the epidemic of armed robbery that happened in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Set in the cash economy of South London before mobiles and the internet, JG Neville’s crime novels feature a disparate cast of villains and bent policemen involved in armed robbery, theft and money laundering.
Car dealers, builders, pub owners and scrap merchants work together. But greedy, paranoid, and envious, they’re always ready to stab each other in the back for a bigger whack. Corrupt policemen often work with them, sometimes skewing investigations and sometimes helping themselves to the proceeds.
In a violent atmosphere where no-one can be trusted, exasperated detectives struggle to bring the criminals to justice, constantly hampered by bent colleagues and departmental infighting. It’s a world of phone boxes and rusty cars, birds and geezers; where “getting a drink” means a share of the loot, not a beverage; where a “monkey” means five hundred quid and “blag” means a robbery.