4 Bones Sleeping

By Gerald Wixey
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Published: July 23, 2012
Words: 87,304 (approximate)
Language: American English
ISBN: 9781476219196

Short description

How did a girl’s suicide at her posh boarding school connect to four bodies burnt to a crisp in a London club thirty five years earlier. Jack Carter knows the answer and he’s fighting a dangerous old enemy on one front and an inquisitive police officer on the other. What does he do? Tell the truth and go to prison? Say nothing and risk the wrath of an avenging psychopath?

Extended description

Crime reporter Jack Carter becomes drawn into the shady world of clubs, extortion and women of the night. A man out of his depth, struggling to come to terms with the chance of sudden wealth and the inherent dangers that went hand in hand in the post-war years. Despite the risks, he decides to sting an unbalanced extortionist. Its an impulsive and outrageous con. One that Jack soon realises, means a life looking over his shoulder for men hell-bent on revenge.
Thirty five years later and Jack lives the life of a small town, independent newspaper owner. Life is comfortable, until a young girls sudden death that is. Jack is at the scene at the same time as the police. Did she fall, or was she pushed out of the third floor window of her expensive public school? Just fifteen, promiscuous and a drug user. Jack doesn’t realise it at the time, but events connected to the end of the war are about to come winging down from London and threaten his rural idyll.
A few days later and a woman is.. (Read more) Crime reporter Jack Carter becomes drawn into the shady world of clubs, extortion and women of the night. A man out of his depth, struggling to come to terms with the chance of sudden wealth and the inherent dangers that went hand in hand in the post-war years. Despite the risks, he decides to sting an unbalanced extortionist. Its an impulsive and outrageous con. One that Jack soon realises, means a life looking over his shoulder for men hell-bent on revenge.
Thirty five years later and Jack lives the life of a small town, independent newspaper owner. Life is comfortable, until a young girls sudden death that is. Jack is at the scene at the same time as the police. Did she fall, or was she pushed out of the third floor window of her expensive public school? Just fifteen, promiscuous and a drug user. Jack doesn’t realise it at the time, but events connected to the end of the war are about to come winging down from London and threaten his rural idyll.
A few days later and a woman is beaten to death at the same time as a body of a London gangster is found. A man that had been buried for thirty five years that somehow links to the recently murdered woman. Questions soon start coming Jack's way. How did four bodies burnt to a crisp in a London club, connect to recent events? Jack's fighting a dangerous old enemy on one front and an inquisitive police officer on the other. What does he do? Tell the truth and go to prison? Say nothing and risk the wrath of an avenging psychopath?
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betrayal, infidelity, sociopath, femme fatale, crime thriller

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