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Two Faced (Harry Tyler Book 2)

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DEDICATION
 
 

With much love the author dedicates
Two Faced
to Tania, without whose support and encouragement it would never have seen the light of day. He also tips his titfer at the Bushwhacker for inspiration, and to Joseph Mellor, RIP, who should take the blame for his entire career. Special thanks go to Michael Fournaris and André Schlesinger.

 

Life would be less pleasant without the love and friendship of: Julie, Danny, Robert, Jenna, Ciara, Terry, Lauren & TC, Ethan, Mick and Helen, Tommy and Claire, Paul and Sue, Lol Pryor, Colin and Kathryn, Dave and Lynda, Vic and Mandy, Kara and Jez, Pat Mancini, Garry and Julie Johnson, Sally Hand, Gerard Nicoletti, Wilf Pine, Spider Mike, Colin Butts, Ally Ross, Jill Print, Alan Lewis, Karin Secker, Conrad Chant, Margaret French, Joanna Burns, Kathy Gray, Colin Williams, Roel Middlebos, Skully, Jeff Turner, Jane Rumbold, Sandy Lane, Si Spanner, Dougie The Gold, Batty, Pete Way, Nellie, Scotch John, Jim and Sharon, Garry Hodges, Oxo, Tony Clayman, Andy Swallow, Panny and Gil, Barnet Mark, Watford John, Harry in Belfast, Captain Oi, Colin Blood, Frankie and Jill, Dudders, Steve Green, Clyde and Jayne, John King, Charlton Athletic Football Club, Trisha Harbord, my friend at the
People
and the Gonads, God bless ’em.

PREFACE
 
 

The first Harry Tyler novel,
The Face
, came out in the summer of 2001. It made two tabloid front pages, got me sacked from the
Sun
and inspired a campaign of support in the
Guardian
.

I await the response to
Two Faced
with a mix of gleeful anticipation and sheer terror.

GLOSSARY OF SLANG TERMS
 
 
Apples
£20 notes (apple cores=scores;
 
also Georges, from George Daws)
Aris
Arse (Aristotle=bottle;
 
bottle and glass=arse; also April,
 
April in Paris=aris)
Banged up
Imprisoned
Bang to rights
Caught red-handed; guilty
Barry
A big woman (Barry
 
McGuigan=big ’un)
Bent
Crooked or stolen (used chiefly
 
of goods)
Bent
Gay (see iron)
Bird
Time in prison (bird lime=time)
Blade Runner
Someone transporting
 
stolen goods
Blag
Rob (originally a pay-roll or
 
money delivery in public place)
Blagger
Robber
Boat
Face (boat race=face; also
 
Chevy Chase)
The boob
Prison
Boost
To hot-wire a car
Boracic
Skint (boracic lint=skint)
Bottle out
To lose one’s nerve
Brass
Prostitute (also Tom, dripper)
Brown bread
Dead
Bullseye
 £50
Bung
A bribe
Bushel
Neck (bushel and peck=neck)
Butchers
Look (butcher’s hook=look)
Carpet
Three months’ imprisonment
Charlie
Cocaine (also Gianluca, Gianluca
 
Vialli=charlie; snow; Chas;
 
sherbet; Ying; marching powder)
Chavvy
A child (Romany)
China
Mate (china plate=mate)
Chiv
A knife
The Church
Customs & Excise (C of E)
Clean
Innocent, especially of carrying
 
illegal goods
Clobber
Clothes
Cockle
£10 (cock and hen=ten)
Collar felt
To be arrested (‘he had his
 
collar felt’)
The Currant
The
Sun
(currant bun=sun)
Dabs
Fingerprints
Daisy
A safe-breaking tool
Darby
Stomach (Darby Kelly=belly)
Dipper
Pick-pocket
Diving
Pick-pocketry
Dog
Telephone (dog and
 
bone=phone)
Doris
A woman
Drink
A bribe – ranging from a drink
 
to a nice drink to a handsome
 
drink
Dripper
Prostitute
Drumming
House-breaking
Earner
Easy money
Elephants
Inebriated (Elephant’s
 
trunk=drunk; also legless; Brahms
 
and Liszt=pissed)
Eye-tie
An Italian gentleman
Feds
Undercover cops
Fence
A receiver of stolen goods
Filth
The police (also Old Bill; Plod;
 
Dibble; cozzers; rozzers)
Firm
A gang
Fit up
To give or plant false evidence
Flowery
Prison cell (flowery dell=cell)
Four-be
A Jewish man (four-be two=Jew)
Frankie
A cut-throat razor (Frankie
 
Fraser=razor)
Friend of ours
One of us (As distinct from ‘a
 
friend of mine’, which means he
 
seems OK but hasn’t been fully
 
referenced)
Gaff
A house (also drum)
Gary
Toilet or anus (Gary
 
Glitter=shitter; also Khazi)
Give a pull
To impart words of advice
Gold watch
Scotch whisky
Grass
Informer
Grumble
Vagina (grumble and grunt=cunt)
Gypsy’s
A piss (gypsy’s kiss=piss; also
 
Jimmy, Jimmy Riddle=piddle;
 
slash; lash)
Hampton
Penis (Hampton Wick=prick)
Hand Grenades
AIDS
Hank Marvin
Starving
Harry
Semen (Harry Monk=spunk)
A Henry
An eighth of an ounce of
 
cannabis, from Henry VIII
In the frame
To be prime suspect
Iron
Gay man (iron hoof=poof; also
 
Duke of Kent=bent; ginger
 
beer=queer)
Jack and Danny
Vagina (Jack and Danny=fanny;
 
also Nook and Cranny)
Jacks
£5 (Jack’s alive=five; also Lady
 
Godiva=fiver)
Jacksie
Arse
Jamjar
Car
Jiggle
A Frenchman (jiggle and
 
jog=frog)
Jivvle
A woman (dismissive term)
Joe
A Pakistani man (Joe Daki=Paki)
A Janet
A quarter of an ounce of
cannabis
(Janet Street Porter=quarter)
K
£1,000
K
Ketamine (also known as Special
 
K, Vitamin K)
Khazi
Toilet
Khyber
Arse, from Khyber Pass
Kosher
The real thing
Long firm
A business set up and allowed to
 
run over a fairly lengthy period
 
with the sole intention of
 
defrauding creditors
Manor
Neighborhood
Mark yer cards
To give advice
Minces
Eyes (mince pies=eyes)
Monkey
 £500
Moody
Fake
Mug
A stupid person (also muppet;
 
ice cream)
Mulla
To beat up.
Mutton
Deaf (Mutt and Jeff=deaf)
Ned
TV (Ned Kelly=telly)
Nonce
Child-sex offender
Nugget
A one pound coin
Oedipus
Sex (Oedipus Rex=sex)
Oily
Cigarette (oily rag=fag)
On your jack
Alone (Jack Jones=alone)
OP
Observation post
Orchestras
Testicles (orchestra stalls=balls;
 
also cobblers, cobblers awls=balls)
Parcel
A consignment of stolen goods
Patsies
Piles (Patsy Palmer’s=farmers,
 
Farmer Giles=piles)
Peter
A safe
Pete Tong
Wrong
Pet the poodle
Female masturbation (also beat
 
the beaver, hit the slit, juice the
 
sluice, bash the gash, slam the clam)
Pigs
Beer (pig’s ear=beer, usually on
 
George Raft=draft)
Plates
Feet (plates of meat=feet)
Pony
£25 (also macaroni=pony)
Pony
Crap (pony and trap=crap)
Pop
Pawn (popcorn=pawn)
Porkies
Lies (porky pies=lies)
Porridge
Time in prison
Puff
Cannabis (also dope, grass,
 
blow, wacky baccy, ganja,
 
weed, pot)
Pukka
A real deal
Queen Mum
Bum (also Kingdom Come)
Rock ’n’ Roll
Unemployed (rock ’n’ roll=dole)
Rosy
Tea (Rosy Lee=tea)
Rubber
Pub (rubadubdub=pub; also
 
battle cruiser=boozer)
Ruby
Curry (Ruby Murray=curry)
Salmon
Erection (salmon and
 
prawn=horn; also lob-on)
Saucepan
Child (saucepan lid=kid)
Schnide
Fake (also Sexton Blake=fake)
Score
£20
See You Next Tuesday
A cunt
Septic
American (septic tank=Yank)
Sherbert
A cab (sherbert dab=cab)
Silvery
A black man (silvery
 
spoon=coon; also Fergal, Fergal
 
Sharkey=darky)
Slag
A person with no principles
Slaphead
A bald man or Yelland, one who
 
wears the pink crash helmet
Slaughter
A safe place to dispose of stolen
 
goods (also slaughter house)
Smack
Heroin (also horse, H, junk, skag,
 
shit, brown, Harry, boy, the white
 
palace, the Chinaman’s nightcap)
Sov
£1 (from sovereign)
SP
Information (starting prices)
Speed
Amphetamines (also sulph,
 
whizz, Billy, phets)
Spiel
Patter
Squirt
Ammonia in a bottle
Stewards
Investigation (from steward’s
 
inquiry)
Stretch
One year in prison
Stripe
To cut the face with a Frankie
 
or a chiv
Surrey Docks
Syphilis (Surrey Docks=pox)
Swagman
A dealer in cheap market goods
Swede
Head (also loaf, loaf of
 
bread=head; noggin)
Syrup
Wig (syrup of figs=wigs)
Taters
Cold (potatoes in the
 
mould=cold; also brass monkey’s,
 
from it’s cold enough to freeze
 
the balls off a brass monkey)
Tea leaf
Thief
Thru’pennies
Breasts (thru’penny bits=tits; also
 
Bristols, Bristol Cities=titties;
 
Earthas, Eartha Kitts=tits)
Tiddlies
Chinese people
 
(tiddlywink=chink)
Tin-tack
Sack
Tits up
To go wrong, or pear-shaped, as
 
in ‘it’s all gone tits up’
Tom
Jewellery (tomfoolery=jewellery)
Tom
Defecate (go for a Tom, Tom
 
Tit=shit; also a Forest, Forest
 
Gump=dump)
Weasel
Coat (weasel and stoat=coat)
Whistle
Suit (whistle and flute=suit)
Wipe his mouth
To put up with the situation
Wrong ’un
Bad or untrustworthy person
Wutherings
Tights (Wuthering
 
Heights=tights)
Yelland
see Grumble
 
 
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