Borrowed Time
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Publisher Description
Adam Nunn's search for his true identity has horrifying consequences in this compelling psychological thriller.
A badly mutilated body has been discovered in a remote woodland pond on the Essex borders – a location known to be the haunt of the ruthless crime gang that ruled London in the 70s. When one of the victim's hands is found nearby, forensic tests reveal a number scrawled on the palm. It is quickly identified as the National Insurance number of struggling family man Adam Nunn.
As Adam is arrested in connection with the murder, it emerges that the dead man was a private investigator he had hired to find out the identity of his birth parents. Just what did Larry Paris discover that got him killed?
As Adam seeks the truth surrounding his origins and promises justice for the mother he never knew, he is drawn into a lurid criminal world of violence and violation, reprisal and merciless death. Torn between the man he wants to be and the man he fears becoming, Adam's investigations will lead him ever deeper into darkness.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this formulaic thriller from Mark (A Rush of Blood), Portsmouth, England, resident Adam Nunn, who was adopted as a baby and doesn't know who his birth parents were, hires PI Larry Paris to help him find out. When Paris's corpse is found with a huge hole in his skull in an area known as Dead Man's Vale, because it was once a popular place for mobsters to dump their victims, Nunn, who has a history of violence, becomes a person of interest for a newly created UK police unit modeled on the FBI. The hot-tempered Nunn, who refuses to cooperate, gets locked up for the murder. Meanwhile, an enforcer named Irons, "a monstrous thing; all scars and twisted skin, as if half his face is made from cold spaghetti and cheap leather," fears the m.o. of Paris's murder is meant to frame his employers, the Jardine crime family, and undertakes his own investigation into the killing. Readers should be prepared for predictable plot twists and stock characters, notably Irons, who fits the familiar type of the brutal killer who still has a heart. Those seeking novelty will be disappointed.
