It's a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour Deadbeat by Adam Hamdy.
About the Author
Adam Hamdy is a Sunday Times, Kindle, and international bestselling author and screenwriter who works with studios and production companies all over the world. The author of 15 novels including 6 books in the multi-million bestselling Private series co-written with James Patterson, Adam lives in Mauritius.
His most recent standalone novel, Deadbeat, has been described as a superlative thriller by Publishers Weekly. His previous standalone novel, The Other Side of Night, was one of the New York Times Best Thrillers of 2023 and appeared on several best books of the year lists.
Adam has a degree in Law from Oxford University and a degree in Philosophy from the University of London and was a strategy consultant prior to becoming a writer. A fan of extensive research, Adam is well versed in finance, technology and science. He is also published in numerous world-class scientific and medical journals.
A former boxer and kickboxer, seasoned skier, rock climber, sailor, and CPSA gold marksman, Adam also seeks thrills off the page. Follow @adamhamdy on X
About the book
The author of the Scott Pearce series (Black 13, Red Wolves, White Fire) is back with a taut thriller following a desperate single father as he searches for the anonymous employer who hired him as a hitman.
Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a life-changing sum of money to kill an evil man. But as he goes on a vigilante journey that leaves a trail of bodies across California, Peyton wonders about the identity of his anonymous patron. Soon, his questions become an obsession, and he embarks on a tense and potentially deadly investigation to discover the truth about the murders he’s committed.
Review
I really enjoyed the author within the book writing his own story plot - Peyton Collard becomes larger than life and at some points there appears to be some melding of people. 'Side-eyes Hamdy.' The story becomes an insightful introspective reflection of life, connections, choices and roads taken. Who better to tell it than a desperate man who is happy to take a life for the right reason, but who decides whether it was the right reason or indeed is there anything that warrants the punishment and finality of death?
Running alongside there is also the intriguing question of how much responsibility we as individuals carry for the greater scheme of things, such as pollution and climate change. Is the denial of individual culpability the easiest escape route for the majority of us? Does that stance become a way of life, a coping mechanism, and make us almost indifferent to the pain and suffering around us?
The bigger picture, at least for Peyton, is who decides whether he becomes the weapon to be wielded against others. Is it always power, money and influence that is the deciding factor? Is anyone really going to cry a tear if someone who deserves it, gets what is coming to them?
It's ironic that the subject matter of this core question is playing out in real time, as we watch the people defend an assassin, because the victim was a key player in a company at the core of suffering for many people.
Hamdy is an author to watch, and I highly recommend this read.
Buy Deadbeat at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Publisher : Pendulum Central, pub date 3 Dec. 2024. Buy at Amazon com.
