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Frank Hughes is a New York native. He attended Fordham University in the Bronx and served in the United States Navy. He has traveled extensively in Europe, North America, and the Far East. Along the way he found time to become a five-time undefeated champion on the American quiz show "Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek".
“This action-packed thrill ride, reminiscent of Ian Fleming and Nelson DeMille, will satisfy the most demanding literary adrenaline junkie.”
– Kirkus Reviews
A pedal-to-the-metal crime novel in which a sarcastic private investigator gets more than he bargained for while working a missing person case.
Former federal agent Nick Craig is a man who doesn’t “play well with others.” He is impudent, ill-mannered and quick to deliver acerbic one-liners. Working as a private investigator for a respected Manhattan-based security consultant, Craig grudgingly accepts what appears to be a routine case: to find a University of Washington student who has disappeared. The case quickly grows complicated as Craig explores the dorm room of Kenneth Boyd (whom his own lawyer father called “a wimp”). His belongings are gone, his computer’s history has been erased and his car has been meticulously wiped clean. The only lead is a picture of Boyd with an attractive young woman known around the campus as a hard-core environmental activist. Further investigation leads Craig to Vermont and the base of a radical environmentalist who is being watched by the FBI. After witnessing the murder of that radical and his colleague (and almost getting killed himself), Craig eventually lands in the mountains of Colorado where he finally stumbles on a grand-scale conspiracy—and all of its jaw-dropping revelations. While the storyline is ingeniously knotty, it also requires a certain amount of suspension of disbelief; some of Craig’s exploits are incredible. But because the pacing is frantic and the narrative engaging, readers will undoubtedly not be too distracted.
This action-packed thrill ride, reminiscent of Ian Fleming and Nelson DeMille, will satisfy the most demanding literary adrenaline junkie.
Pub Date: Aug. 16, 2012
ISBN: 978-1478354550
Page count: 332pp
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: Nov. 21, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2013
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Favorite author
Ian Fleming
Favorite book
Gone With The Wind
Favorite line from a book
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
Favorite word
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Unexpected skill or talent
5 time undefeated Jeopardy! Champion
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