Decoy
Murphy, Robert2024
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Bristol, 1979. An attacker roams the streets. Young women are warned not to go out alone. Enter the Decoys. For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all their usual tactics to catch the 'Clifton Rapist', and public pressure was mounting. In 1979, a daring new plan was introduced, unlike anything previously attempted by a UK police force. A small group of young female officers - some aged just 18 - put their lives on the line, walking the quiet residential roads late at night, acting as bait. Drawing on in-depth research and first-hand interviews with the women at the heart of the operation, 'Decoy' is a dramatic retelling of one of the most groundbreaking agent provocateur stings in British history.
Decoy / Robert Murphy.
London : HarperElement, 2024.London : HarperElement, 2024.
343 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
9780008666811 (pbk)
363.259532
English
2902786