Private Investigator Sam Dyke is hired to find a man who’s been released from prison and subsequently gone missing. But the ex-con is an ex-cop who might have been imprisoned for a crime that he didn’t commit.
Working for the man’s daughter, Sam soon discovers that this isn’t just a missing persons case – there are other people involved, including the owner of a high-profile casino and a senior police officer. And when the brutal representatives of an Asian gambling syndicate show up with their own brand of persuasiveness, Sam knows that he must put things right before he and everyone he loves become potential targets ...
This is a new book that has only been released since the end of September, 2014. It's No. 5 in the Sam Dyke Investigations series and so has a built-in audience of readers of that series.
DESPITE WHAT MOST people think about private investigators, I don’t spend all my time waiting in my office for beautiful blonde women with mysterious eyes and long legs to walk in and offer me money to find their missing relatives.
And the first time it happened, it was just my luck she was brought by a cop.
His name was Howard, and I’d had a couple of dealings with him over the years. He was the very embodiment of the word Plod - although he was thin, almost bony, his demeanour was so heavy you felt that if he stood still long enough he’d grow roots.
So when he knocked and poked his head around my office door I wasn’t expecting much in the way of entertainment.
He glanced around the empty room and nodded.
‘You’re in, then.’
‘Apparently.’
‘Got a job for you.’
Perhaps I should have sat up straight and showed some enthusiasm, but to be honest I don’t have a lot of enthusiasm these days. My son, Dan, had traded Bitcoins online for me during the last three months, and I’d done surprisingly well. In fact, the income I’d made in the last three months had outstripped my investigation earnings for the last two years.
Not so good for the motivation.
Now Inspector Howard opened the door wide and stepped back. A young woman walked past him and into my life.
Is that too corny?
Possibly, but that’s what it felt like. She was tall and slender, with the kind of walk that placed one foot in front of the other, like a catwalk model on a tightrope—not that kind of splay-footed amble people usually adopt when entering a space they don’t know. She moved into the room as though she owned it, looked for a seat and commanded it, placing slender hands on either arm of the chair as she sat. It looked grateful to receive her.
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Translated by Federica Scalvini
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Author review: Federica was excellent to work with - very fast, very responsive to requests and produced a very good final document. As far as I could see the translation was very good and I have every confidence in it. |
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Translated by Ana Cecilia Esquivel B.
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Author review: Excellent work and a pleasure to deal with Ana. She worked hard to produce a good final product! |
