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The Sweeney #2
The Sweeney 2: The Manhattan File
Jack Regan is sent to New York on the trail of an international plot involving millions in missing American military hardware. As usual Jack Regan's talent for extreme action means confrontation with the NYPD, the FBI, the CIA and organised crime, and also a mysterious and willing woman.This is the second of three Sweeney novels published at the time of the original series. The others ‘The Regan’, and ‘The Sweeney 3: The Deal of the Century’. Ian Kennedy Martin is the creator of Thames Television’s enormously popular TV series.www.iankennedymartin.com
144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 29, 1976
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Ian Kennedy Martin
16 books1 followerIan Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs. He is also known for writing the 1975 action film Mitchell.
He began his television career in the 1960s, first as a script editor on the military police drama series Redcap (1964) and then later as a writer on series such as The Troubleshooters (1965). In 1971 he worked on the popular BBC drama series The Onedin Line, which ran for nine years until 1980.
Since the end of The Sweeney in 1978, Kennedy Martin has continued to write for various police / detective dramas. These have included the BBC's Juliet Bravo and The Chinese Detective during the 1980s and ITV's The Knock in the 1990s. He has also written a number of novels, including Rekill and the dystopian science fiction novel The Last Crime, this last under the pseudonym John Domatilla. On 9th March 2009, his first play, The Berlin Hanover Express premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in North London.
He is the younger brother of the scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, with whom he worked on Redcap and The Sweeney.
He began his television career in the 1960s, first as a script editor on the military police drama series Redcap (1964) and then later as a writer on series such as The Troubleshooters (1965). In 1971 he worked on the popular BBC drama series The Onedin Line, which ran for nine years until 1980.
Since the end of The Sweeney in 1978, Kennedy Martin has continued to write for various police / detective dramas. These have included the BBC's Juliet Bravo and The Chinese Detective during the 1980s and ITV's The Knock in the 1990s. He has also written a number of novels, including Rekill and the dystopian science fiction novel The Last Crime, this last under the pseudonym John Domatilla. On 9th March 2009, his first play, The Berlin Hanover Express premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in North London.
He is the younger brother of the scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, with whom he worked on Redcap and The Sweeney.
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July 14, 2023
A good crime read not as good as the first
January 24, 2024
(2.5 stars, rounded up.) I hope the following applies only to the ebook. This might well have been more enjoyable if the text had been divided into chapters rather than simply presented as a monolithic slab of paragraphs that abruptly change scenes in an incredibly jarring manner. I’m guessing the Kindle version I read was scanned from hard copy and converted by OCR without anybody bothering to finesse the results. Sadly, the result was an irritating and disappointing read.
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