Alarm Call

Name: Alarm Call
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Quintin Jardine
ISBN: 9781407906287

Author: Quintin Jardine

Narrator: Joe Dunlop

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 10/01/2014

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame - it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fistful of high denomination notes. When he recovered, he found that he was a movie star, married to a successful businesswoman and about to leap into the Big Time. But life could never be that sweet. His first taste of bitterness was finding his ex-wife drenched in her own tears, her life in ruins and robbed of her baby boy by his lying, cheating father. What else could he do but help? But maybe he should have backed out then. Instead he set out on a voyage of dark intrigue and wild discovery that would turn his life upside down…

About Quintin Jardine

Quintin Jardine was born once upon a time in the West - of Scotland rather than America, but still he grew to manhood as a massive Sergio Leone fan. On the way there he was educated, against his will, in Glasgow, where he ditched a token attempt to study law for more interesting careers in journalism, government propaganda, and political spin-doctoring. After a close call with the Brighton Bomb in 1984, he moved into the even riskier world of media relations consultancy, before realising that all along he had been training to become a crime writer. Now, forty novels later, he never looks back.Along the way he has created/acquired an extended family in Scotland and Spain. Everything he does is for them.He can be tracked down through his blog: http://quintinjardine.me

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ljohnston on July 31, 2021

Great story with a super twist. Oz’s life goes in and who makes a surprise appearance, Prim, but she is trouble and Oz being Oz comes to the rescue. Kidnapping, blackmail, infidelity, marriage all these things happen in this read.......more

Goodreads review by Margo on December 17, 2019

My first Oz Blackstone mystery. I liked it but I found some sections kind of "slam stick'. Oz is now with wife No. 3 and two kids, but wife No. 2 comes and needs his help. Many twists and turns but a good read. You want to see what happens at the end.......more

Goodreads review by ilnyb on July 07, 2014

I'd read an earlier book with these characters and quite enjoyed it. This one not so much. Apparently when you get filthy rich even if you're only a character in a book you still become smug, patronising and insufferable. Oh, well, last one. Some glaring holes in the plot, too, not to mention very si......more