What Da Cover Says: The action begins with a honeymoon from hell. Jack encounters raging floods, a hot air balloon that goes ballistic and takes a quick dip in quicksand. On his way back to the office Private Detective Jack Hamma is accosted by a bikie with a grudge. There’s a fight, Jack’s beaten to a pulp, but he’s the last man standing, sort of. He collapses, undergoes emergency surgery and must contemplate life in a wheelchair. If that wasn’t enough for our modern day hero he has to deal with a high school reunion that goes badly wrong, a gun toting husband and an unhinged scientist with a nuclear bomb. It takes all Jack’s resourcefulness, his ability to think on his feet and his downright native cunning to come out on top in this fast paced thriller.
What I Says: The twelfth Jack Hamma outing in this incredible series and this one is all about marriage. The book starts of with Jack and Kashmere celebrating their second honeymoon in typical Hamma style, hot air balloon collisions, quicksand and flash floods, everything seems to be against them. Once they get home and back to work it all kicks off for Jack, multiple marriage disputes and a head injury leaves him in hospital with some tins of soup.
As with all Thorogood’s books, this is full of energy, fighting, danger, humour and lots of crazy characters, it always makes me chuckle how Hamma has some kind of gravitational pull for crazy. One thing I’ve learnt from previous books is that sometimes the characters stick around and I think we’ve got a few more added to the family. A favourite habit that Thorogood has is in the middle of the action he pauses to give a mini history lesson and the first occurrence of this had me giving a little cheer.
Never disappoints and always a fun read, can’t wait to see what is next for Hamma.
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