Robert Marshall-Andrews, 15 July 1982
Rough Justice: The Extraordinary Truth about Charles Richardson and his Gang by Robert Parker.
Fontana, 352 pp., £1.95, October 1981, 0 00 636354 7Show More Web of Corruption: The Story of John Poulson and T. Dan Smith by Raymond Fitzwalter and David Taylor.
Granada, 282 pp., £12.50, October 1981, 0 246 10915 7Show More Inside Boss: South Africa’s Secret Police by Gordon Winter.
Penguin, 640 pp., £7.95, October 1981, 9780140057515Show More Crime in Wartime: A Social History of Crime in World War II by Edward Smithies.
Allen and Unwin, 219 pp., £12.50, January 1982, 0 04 364020 6Show More Show More“... unions, the construction industry, great nationalised enterprises including the National Health Service, British Railways, the Coal Board and, finally, the Scottish Office. In doing so, it dramatically illustrates, not only the size and the virility of the corruption which spread into public life in the wake of the property bonanza, but also the complex ...”