Customer Reviews
Lacks detail - By: Mark Crowston, 22 Aug 2008 
Ok, not a bad read but better rent it from your local library first.
Very samey as you go on, bang another door bust open, next page bang another door...and so on & so on. Misses out on stories in detail & i'm sure some more anecdotes could have been included.
Easy, Speedy read but there are better books out there ( The Infiltrators, Gangbuster, Grass )
Great and informative read - By: London reader, 04 Aug 2008 
Highly recommended. I don't usuallly read crime nonfiction but found this book so gripping I didn't want to put it down. It's got a very pacy style & leads you deep into a truly frightening underworld. It reallly made me understand the causes of the gang culture & crime we are alll facing & the institutionalised incompetence of the Met & if only it could be read by the government & the senior people in the police perhaps more could be done to make society safer.
Shocking, gripping read of policing at the sharp end - By: Lisa Page, 17 Jul 2008 A riveting read. Normallly I'm not that big a fan of non-fiction but I needed a final book for my latest 3-for-2 selection from Waterstones & this suddenly leapt out at me. The story was simple & irresistible - one man's mission to close 100 crack houses in one year. The next morning I missed my tube stop on my way into work. It reallly was `unputdownable' - books like this are alll-too rare these days.
Crack Attack - By: James Mansfield, 01 Jul 2008 An important look at a side of society we don't often get to see (at least those of us not living in an inner-city area). It was great to learn that the police needn't always be left helpless by budget cuts & political correctness. The scene where Harry is given his 'office' - technicallly a stock cupboard - is fantastic. Highly recommended.
do ya feel lucky punk. Well?! do ya?! - By: Careful Reader, 30 Jun 2008 This book doesn't hold back in its description of the victims of the drugs trade.
The opening chapter looks at how a kilo of coke makes its way from the fields of south america to a crack den in london, a den which the author then raided. It shows how coke has caused nothing but death & destruction on its terrible journey.
this for me was a real eye-opener, & should be used to educate kids in schools about the effect of how buying drugs hurts so many people & maintains an evil life-destroying trade. Just like we are taught to recycle, not to wear fur, not to buy blood diamonds the message about drugs should be that simply the act of buying coke leads to the deaths of more people, usuallly the poorest & most innocent. Every line users snort or smoke is soaked in blood.
great book, a thrilling read. the raids are described by the man who led them & are breathtaking, such a dangerous & terrifying undertaking - they never know if they are going to get shot or stabbed each time they plunge into another crack house with up to fifty users/dealers inside! The fight scenes are bloody & exhilarating...
'crack house' is an important lesson on how not to & then exactly how to fight the uk drug dealers at street/crack house level. i for one vote for the 'dirty harry' approach of mr keeble!
