Stephen Hudgell
A book hardly worth my attention and time – but still I persisted to the end, because strangely enough I began to care for one of the main characters, and for a while it wasn’t clear where the story was heading, and I was curious as to how it would play out.
Ginger is a convicted criminal just released from prison who has nothing better to do than plan for more crimes. This time, he is certain to make his plan work and yield enough money to leave the UK once and for all, to spend the rest of his life on some tropical island with all the booze and female company he wants.
Quite by chance, he meets Frank, CEO of a local company. Over a pint they start talking, and convinced that Ginger is determined to live straight after having served his sentence, Frank offers him a job.
Unfortunately, things don’t go as intended, and Ginger swears revenge.
He now turns his hand to blackmail, and when his victim threatens to expose him, murder is his obvious next step.
Frank, who has been enlisted by the victim to help get to the bottom of the blackmailing, can’t let Ginger get away with the money AND murder.
He unwillingly teams up with a friend, but Ginger isn’t outwitted so easily…
What kept me reading on was curiosity where the events were leading and wanting to see Frank come out of it all without too much harm.
The basic idea of the story was interesting enough: Can a perfectly upright person, trusted husband and father, loyal employee and hard worker, become involved in criminal activities but still fight for their values?
Can a criminal be truly bad to the core, with nothing kind about him at all?
From the perspective of following through with these ideas, the book wasn’t a total waste. But the writing was so bad and full of errors that I really was tempted more than once to just leave it.
It wasn’t overly long and kept me sort of entertained during several trips to and from work, and of course I did not spend any money on this free ebook from the kindle store.
It was my first and will remain my only read by this writer. I couldn't find much information about him, but there are several books by him available from Amazon. Hopefully (for him), this was a starter and his writing (and whoever has done the editing!) has improved since.
Well done for continuing to the end. I often wonder with some books if they have been proofread at all. Some of the errors are basic.
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