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Decoy

By: Robert Murphy
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth, Robert Murphy
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Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025

The shocking true story of one of Britain’s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations

Bristol, 1979.

An attacker roams the streets…

Young women are warned not to go out alone…

Enter the Decoys.

For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all their usual tactics to catch the ‘Clifton Rapist’, and public pressure was mounting.

In 1979, a daring new plan was introduced, unlike anything previously attempted by a UK police force. A small group of young female officers – some aged just 18 – put their lives on the line, walking the quiet residential roads late at night, acting as bait.

Drawing on in-depth research and first-hand interviews with the women at the heart of the operation, Decoy is a dramatic retelling of one of the most groundbreaking agent provocateur stings in British history.

©2024 Robert Murphy (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers Abuse Relationships Sexual Abuse & Harassment True Crime
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The story was really interesting however the monotone narration made it difficult to listen to. The most enjoyable part of the narrative was the noted by the author.

Monotone of narrator

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The story is much too drawn out and cook, and should, be told in a fraction of the time

should have been a short podcast

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