Foxtrot Oscar

Charlie Owen

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1976 James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister; Brotherhood of Man win the Eurovision Song Contest, things surely cannot get much worse or can they?

Handstead New Town, affectionately known as Horse's Arse, a north Manchester overspill and ugly dump, melts under the relentless heat wave of the summer. The Park Royal Mafia, a group of local villains, is under new management but its muscle and sheer mindless violence has attracted the sinister attention of Sercan Ozdemir, a Turkish gangster. The police, Horse's Arse's finest, The Grim Brothers, Psycho, Pizza and the rest, try and keep a lid on things in their own inimitable style. But when the CID manoeuvre the Park Royal Mafia into a catastrophic arrangement with Ozdemir, it can only end in tears...

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Charlie Owen

Charlie Owen

Charlie Owen enjoyed a thirty-year career in the police service, serving with two forces in the Home Counties and London, reaching the rank of Inspector.

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