Herbert Howard Jones

When Fear Stalks - A Case for 'the Player' (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When handsome Australian art detective Jack Truepster, also known as 'the player,' is visiting an art gallery in Madrid with a beautiful young lady, they are attacked by kidnappers who whisk his companion away.

During the attack Jack is knocked unconscious and he wakes up in a police cell accused of being complicit in the kidnap. He also learns that the victim, Laura, is the daughter of a senator who is trying to extradite a criminal to America to face trial for drug offences. The criminal, a Johnny Vazo just happens to have a powerful underground buddy in Madrid and together they hatch a plan to get Vazo off the hook. It involves the kidnap of the senator's daughter, Laura, pure and simple.

It soon becomes clear that the kidnappers want the extradition of Johnny Vazo to be stopped in return for the safe return of the kidnap victim. It's nothing less than blackmail. The senator has the authority to withdraw the extradition order, but he has spent many months on the case, and it would mean a waste of all that time and effort.

But the kidnappers have made it clear that his daughter Laura's life hangs in the balance unless the senator agrees to their terms. The distraught senator's wife demands swift action from her husband, but as he is a man of duty and responsibility, he is dithering.
It seems that only the enterprising Jack Truepster and his sidekick, Dino, may have the ingenuity to outwit the kidnappers and unravel the corruption which surrounds the case. But will they succeed when the odds are greater than anyone has realised?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Herbert Howard Jones
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005764432
• Artikelnr.: 72409763

Autorenporträt

HERBERT HOWARD JONES grew up in Notting Hill, London in the sixties. He went to a boarding school in Norfolk and then local schools including Sloane School where crime writer John Creasy attended near the King's Road. When he left school he got numerous jobs, including as a porter at the BBC London, working as a jewellery assembler in a factory in Hatton Garden and also in a number of roles at a showbiz solicitor's office where he was a trainee legal executive and ran errands for a few of the British movie and music names of the time.

He is a creative spirit who also likes dabbling in music and art himself. When he was in the jewellery business he personally made over ten thousand 14 carat gold gate bracelets which was a great learning experience for him. However, he was more interested in media and always wanted to write suspense books with a melodramatic element and so spent years reading them and working on various projects. He is also interested in romantic and fantasy fiction. And despite being a Catholic he is interested in New Age literature, mythology and metaphysics.

But meeting people has always inspired him the most and he has had the good fortune to meet quite a few interesting people. He was personally friends with horror writer, Denis Wheatley's housekeeper when she lived in Blackheath, and knew poet John Pudney who lived nearby before he passed. One of the most interesting people that he met was the daughter of the Captain of the Titanic with whom he had tea in her cottage up in Suffolk. Miss Smith was a lady with a big personality and a very interesting home. She was surrounded with Titanic memorabilia wherever you looked. Jones was only a boy at the time and didn't appreciate the significance of all this stuff, but regrets not quizzing her on the catastrophic event which has forever featured large in shipping folklore!

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HHJ