You're Coming With Me Lad: Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby
By (Author) Mike Pannett
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton
1st June 2010
29th April 2010
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Police and security services
363.2092
Paperback
352
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
253g
Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike s old job hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in Central London. Settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic.
After a crazed swordsman threatens to take his head off, he finds himself confronting a knife-wielding couple bent on carving each other up. When a stag night turns ugly he ends up with the groom, the best man and the bride-to-be all banged up in the cells and the wedding just hours away.With record-breaking floods and politicians to escort, will Mike find time woo the woman of his dreamsPannett, the James Herriot of policing, tiptoes his way through domestic issues, stag nights, and sword-wielding madmen bent on decapitation and tells his tales with warmth and humour. - Daily Express
Move over James Herriot and Gervase Phinn - there is a new name on the North Yorkshire literary block. - York PressMike Pannett was born in York, and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1988. He transferred to North Yorkshire police in 1997. Mike lives in a village in the shadow of the North Yorkshire moors.