The novel follows the policeman ultimately responsible for the investigation and also the hooligan, an otherwise `normal' bloke with a good job, car and house, who for some reason feels the need to turn himself into something completely different at the weekends. The Crew is not only an excellent read, full of twists and turns, including those `just when you think it's all over' moments, but the subject matter is also very interesting. Mr Brimson writes about what he knows and this shines through. However, that is not to say that Mr Brimson's football hooligans are less well drawn. This expertise shines through in the novel, giving it a unique realism, particularly the police perspective.
The author has made something of a study of this subject, not least because he was a policeman and as a result has become an acknowledged expert on the subject.
The Crew is very much a typically British book, in so much as it deals with something peculiar to Britain at the time it was written, the football hooligan.
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