Now Then Lad...

Product Description

A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. Its quite a change from the Met where he dealt with riots on the capitals streets & drug gangs in Battersea & found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers hes chasing runaway bullocks holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road & combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonels balls. Mikes first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons & some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire its breathtaking scenery & wide variety of characters & communities.