The Long Good Friday
screenplay by Barrie Keefe.
Filmed as The Long Good Friday (1980), directed by John Mackenzie.
Published by Methuen Publishing.
Published 2006.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0413722902
ISBN-13: 978-0413722904
Description:
The first British thriller to even approach the cracking
vitality of the classic Hollywood gangster movies ...dazzlingly slick. – Daily
Mail.
The best British gangster flick of all time. – Empire.
Barrie Keeffe's acclaimed screenplay for the
classic film. Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own
'corporation' and owning his own yacht and classy mistress. He has the police
and the local authorities in his pocket, is planning a major London property
development and forging links with the international Mafia. Everything indeed
is coming up roses for Harold until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown
embark on a series of lethal outrages against his organisation. As the story
accelerates to a crazy vortex of violence, Harold discovers he has unwittingly
crossed enemies whose connections, expertise and dedication to violence
outclass his own.