Valentin Gendrot: Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police [2021] paperback LBIOG Then at Hallowe'en

Then at Hallowe'en

O'Brien draws on all of his experiences - good and bad

John made Rose promise to share their story - to tell what they had learned

Forty years later

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

Valentin Gendrot: Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police [2021] paperback LBIOG Then at Hallowe'enPolice officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because that's what police solidarity means: what happens in the van stays in the van. Well, not always. Not this time. What really happens behind the walls of a police station? To answer this question, investigative journalist Valentin Gendrot put his life on hold for two years and became the first journalist in history