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Cover Blurb:
It all began because he wanted to write a bestseller; it ended with blackmail and double-cross, intrigue and murder, and a desperate fight for survival. Tony Blake had come to interview low-life Private Investigator Ronnie Elliott, but within days the PI was dead and Blake was embroiled up to his freshly scrubbed author’s neck in a real-life murder mystery. Having adopted, almost by default, the persona of his own fictional character, Richard Mahoney, he has no choice but to delve deeper into the seamy, violent underbelly of the sleepy, down-at-heel northern seaside town. One step behind him are the sour and jaded local cops, Walker and O’Neal, in front of him are the lowlife thugs of the underworld and scheming entrepreneurs. On the positive side he discovers a willing, friendly and more than accommodating sidekick in the curvaceous form of Mandy Woodall, and has to resist the advances and not inconsiderable charms of his client ‘employer’ the mysterious and dangerous Helen Fitzsimmons. Like a Drowning Man, Tony Blake, aka Richard Mahoney, gambles with his credibility and his life in pursuit of the truth behind a series of seemingly random deaths and innocuous incidents. But with the events unfolding around him taking on a momentum of their own, time is running out . . .
BOOK DETAILS:
Title: THE DROWNING MAN
ISBN: 1-9037100-0-6
Author: Gary Mortimer
Genre: Crime Fiction
Length: 160 pages - black and white
Size: 129mm x 197mm (portrait)
Cover: paperback - full colour
