Having dealt with two eternal English fetishes - violence and sex - in "The Football Factory" and "Headhunters", John King completes his trilogy "The English Way": sex and violence abroad, under the shadow of the Union Jack. There are three in the novel storylines - past, present, future - pensioner Bill Farrell at home in London remembers the war and his participation in it, Tom Johnson punches his way through Holland and Germany to a friendly match of the England football team in Berlin, and Harry Roberts dreams of a future in the smoke the curtain of Dutch grass and the toxic fog of German amphetamines. John King tells the story of what it means for these three characters to be English - now, during the creation of a new European superstate. The culmination of the author’s thoughts, and indeed the entire novel, occurs on the “blitzkrieg” streets.www.category-c.ru