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This is the 3rd book that I've read based on the original Prisoner TV series and I'm starting to realise something - at that place'south a lot of crossover in these books. From reading the other two books, the showtime and The Frustrations Of Vera, they are all based around the same time.

Vera and Franky have the same conversation at one bespeak, while she is in solitary; Bea gets paroled and shoots her ex husband; Franky tries to leap off the roof. All of these and like storylines turn upwardly in this book and

This is the third book that I've read based on the original Prisoner Television receiver series and I'1000 starting to realise something - there's a lot of crossover in these books. From reading the other ii books, the first and The Frustrations Of Vera, they are all based around the aforementioned time.

Vera and Franky have the aforementioned conversation at one point, while she is in alone; Bea gets paroled and shoots her ex married man; Franky tries to spring off the roof. All of these and like storylines plow up in this volume and I imagine there will exist similar crossovers in the other books in the series.

Franky was never a grapheme I liked in the original series and I don't know if a lot of the flashbacks to her early on life occurred on screen. When I beginning started watching Prisoner, I was probably too innocent to know that Franky liked women. You can see how her only years continued to bear upon her afterwards in life and much like The Frustrations of Vera, I did feel a lot of sympathy towards Franky. It does become quite crude like the first two books, and some of the language used isn't pretty.

If you know the series well enough, you'll know that Franky's storyline is quite a distressing 1 and this takes you lot right to the end. The final lines of the book were quite heart wrenching and as I've said about the previous two books, the characters are so well described that they just came to life in my head. (Although the cover of this is non how I knew Franky at all!)

It is fairly repetitive if you have read certainly the first and fourth books - I have not been able to find The Story of Karen Travers, but a lot of her story is told in these books. Merely each book is told from a different perspective and there is some groundwork/fleshing out of the characters accomplished past the authors.

Equally I've said before, this series is expensive - this was i of the actual cheaper books that I was able to get my hands on. It is worth hunting down if you are a fan of the TV series and definitely a good accompaniment.

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this volume explains frankie doyle growing upwards than it seems to get over the aforementioned information that the offset book had which was boring because I already knew this and read it

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