Where’s Aimée? K & R in Marseilles
- Book: Dead Line
- Location: Marseilles (Marseille), The Calanques
- Author: Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
A tense, slow-burning thriller from master storyteller Chris Ewan, a novel that glides around Marseilles and environs, gradually unfolding with menace and foreboding.
Fluent French speaker, Daniel Trent, strategically happens to be at the scene of a staged traffic accident in which wealthy tycoon Jérôme Moreau is kidnapped. He is a K & R (Kidnap and Ransom) specialist, a hostage negotiator who, in the chaos of steaming bonnets and battered metal announces to the two remaining passengers in Moreau’s car (his wife and his bodyguard), that he is ‘The guy you need now’ they buy into this and Trent inveigles himself into their daily routine, as he investigates the disappearance and kidnap. He guides them through the negotiation process, but his motives are not solely about bringing Moreau back to his family…. Can Trent stay true to himself, how far is he willing to go?
Running parallel to his quest to secure Moreau’s release is his search for Aimée, his business partner and lover, who is carrying their child. One day, not so long ago, she suddenly disappeared without trace. How do the two unfolding storylines fit together? To find out, you must buy the book.
As we have come to expect of the author, he truly immerses the reader in the location, he can transport you to the sweltering countryside of southern France in just a few sentences. He escorts you around Marseilles like someone who is very familiar with the city, over to the Calanques, and from Notre-Dame de la Garde, past Cathédrale de la Major and on into the fragrant hills above the teaming city…’the high-rise office buildings and hotels to the west of the city…to the dark waters and industrial docks of Joliette, the eastern sky had splintered into pale pinks and misty yellows and warm copper tones…”
And on our blog we have a great author interview with Chris: http://tripfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/wheres-aimee-k-r-in-marseilles-author.html
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