NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED
Adrian Magson
Publisher: Crème de la Crime
ISBN: 0-9547634-2-4
November, 2004
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NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED
Written by
ADRIAN
MAGSON
Breaking into the world of being a published novelist is an achievement
in itself. Breaking into the world of being a published novelist whilst
setting the standard of No Peace For The Wicked,
as Adrian Magson has done, sets the author an unenviable task; how does
he or she improve on a novel that is sheer excitement from beginning to
end? By writing another that is just as exhilarating, that’s how.
Which is just what Adrian Magson is intent on doing.
Riley Gavin, a young, female investigative reporter, sets out to uncover
why two long-forgotten old gangsters have been executed in cold blood
on England's south coast. Within hours of signing up to write the story,
she finds that her flat has been burgled and a former laid-back military
cop, Frank Palmer, whom she hires to watch her back, is warned off by
men he suspects may be former British soldiers. As she digs deeper,
Riley uncovers a deadly web of vendettas, double-crosses and hatred
in an underworld at war with itself, with the prize being the control
of a faltering criminal empire.
Incredibly well plotted, No
Peace For The Wicked is an adrenaline rush that leaves
no nerve end unjangled. The characters, especially the intrepid Riley
and the unflappable Palmer, are so believable in both their personality
and actions, the reader might just like to check who is sitting next
them on the train or bus in order to try and pick them out, whilst the
antagonists are so vile – yet so coolly methodical in their vileness
– they make the blood run cold, even in memory.
The descriptions, both of surroundings
– particularly those of the heat and dust of Spain, where some
of the story takes place, can be felt biting into the skin – and
of actions, are as well written as anything else available on the Crime
market today, and help breathe yet more life into an already frenetic
world of Adrian Magson’s creating.
As the first of three novels featuring
the investigative team of Gavin and Palmer, the second outing can only
anticipated with glee. Watch this space.
9/10
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