Today it's my turn on the Danny Lancaster BlogTour, this time with the book Rock Hard by Bill Todd. It's an action packed read full of suspense and a main character who is making a name for himself.
Bill is a journalist and travel writer who has visited more than 40 countries from the white wastes of Arctic Finland to the ancient deserts of Namibia. He loves a good wilderness. He received the Ed Lacy travel award in 2007.
Bill has written six crime thrillers featuring soldier-turned-investigator Danny Lancaster and was startled and delighted to be voted one of the 100 best crime authors in the WH Smith readers’ poll in 2015. He’s also written three short factual military histories. He lives to write although keyboard time has been cut lately with the arrival of grandson Theo.
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About the book
When Danny Lancaster gets a call from an old friend it looks like a chance to swap work and women worries in Brighton for a sunshine reunion.
Danny hasn’t seen Pogo since they fought together in Afghanistan. They have war stories to retell, beers to drink. But Pogo is broke, sick and in serious trouble. It started in Gibraltar smuggling cigarettes to pay his debts. Now his Russian boss has taken on a dangerous job for a mysterious businessman. A priceless package must be smuggled into Europe across the narrow straits from Africa.But unseen eyes are watching. Lives are in danger. A game of Russian roulette is just the start of a deadly clash where two continents meet.
The two friends are way out of their depth. And Danny must make a decision.
How far do you go to help the man who saved your life?
This is the fourth book in the Danny Lancaster series, and although there are threads that reappear in the books they can all be read as standalone novels.
In this book Lancaster accidentally falls into a deep well of danger, when he visits an old army pal and gets completely blathered on a night out. Their liquid adventure is the beginning of domino stones falling across the world, all of them somehow connected to our military vet come detective.
It's a brutal and vicious read. It's also uncomfortable at times. Todd knows how to present fiction on a plate and serve it with a portion of brusque reality.
I think it is fair to say that Todd has a very specific style when it comes to plotting. Imagine drawing a spider web from the outside towards the inside instead of the other way round. Direct lines lead towards the centre and the interlinking threads are the various storylines and subplots in the story. Danny Lancaster is threaded through the web like the unwitting fly being drawn into whatever trouble awaits him.
Todd isn't satisfied with any old scenario. His stories are ambitious and action-packed. It's interesting how Lancaster often falls into the midst of everything almost by accident. He isn't looking for trouble it just seems to come looking for him.
Lancaster doesn't mind, perhaps part of him believes he has to excel at taking down the bad guys and saving his friends and himself to prove he is still the man he was before his injury. The truth is he isn't and never will be. He is defined by his experiences and a more driven man because of it.
It's an action packed read full of suspense and a main character who is making a name for himself.
Buy Rock Hard at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Buy at Amazon com.
Buy Rough Diamond, Death Squad, The Wreck of the Margherita (free download), Gargoyle Pixie Dog, Godlefe's Cuckoo all by Bill Todd.
Read my review of Rough Diamond by Bill Todd.
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