28 June 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-80405405-5 (PB)
For Frank Doy it was a day like any other. As a freelance security specialist he never knows where the next paying job is coming from. Currently he was a bit short and a trip to the supermarket looked like a sensible course. An automatic glance at the rear-view mirror showed that a low-slung powerful-looking black saloon had been behind him sometime. It could be something or nothing, but his suspicions were aroused and he bypassed the supermarket, switched roads and still the car remained the same distance behind him. He drove into an empty car park and the black saloon parked parallel to him. A man and a woman got out.
The man walked towards him and said I want information. ‘Where’s Malkovich?’ Who are you? Frank demanded. The man produced a gun. Frank said he had no idea where Malkovich was. Things then escalated very quickly. The man handed the gun to the woman and said ‘shoot him in the knee first. If that doesn’t work, go on from there’. The woman told him to get down on the ground. Frank shuffled a couple of paces and then swivelled fast and swung the tyre lever that he had slipped down his sleeve and caught the woman’s lower arm. As the bone cracked, she screamed and dropped the gun. Before Frank could reach it, her partner had another gun levelled at Frank. The man said to the woman, ‘you’re no use to me now, babe’ and raised his gun. That was when she shot him.
An unlikely and uneasy partnership develops between the two. Both now being hunted. But Frank is still to a degree in the dark but learns from the woman that there is a contract out on him. And having killed the son of the gangster she works for, most likely one on her too.
It is a roller coaster ride as this unlikely duo, neither trusting the other try to stay alive.
A terrific book that will keep you turning
the pages. Just who is it that wants Frank dead?
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Reviewer: Lizzie Sirett
