Homage (A&B Crime) (A&B Crime S.)

by JulianRathbone (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $7.87

  Chris Shovelin is a private eye, investigating petty theft in a sleepy British seaside town. An ex-alcoholic, ex-hippy and ex-bigshot investigator, middle age has had a calming, numbing effect on him. But all this is to change when he is summoned to La Jolla, California, by an old PI friend from the sixties, Wilbur Jefferson. Shovelin figures it is something important from the urgency of his friend's emails, and the couriered Amex cheques, air ticket and keys to his apartment. And when he arrives at the apartment he realises just how important: Jefferson is lying by the couch with a bullet through his brain. Dazed and grieving for his dead friend, Shovelin is contacted by a woman named China Heart. She was Jefferson's final employer, hiring him to track down her missing half-brother, Jerry Lennox. And now she wants Shovelin to take over where his dead friend left off...A violent, blood-soaked chase along the length of America's West Coast - Homage is a gripping and relentless thriller from one of Britain's finest living novelists

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.26

  Reformed alcoholic, ageing hippy, victim of a dysfunctional marriage, British private eye Chris Shovelin answers a call for help from the other side of the world. Arriving in San Diego he discovers Jefferson, the friend in need, lying on the floor of his apartment with a hole in his head. Shovelin's instinct is to run, but China Heart, chic and mega-rich, wants him to take over where Jefferson failed and find Jerry Lennox, her missing brother. From a dude ranch in the desert to Los Angeles and San Francisco the chase is on. But who is being hunted - Shovelin or Lennox? Catastrophic air crashes, extortion, drugs and murder all play their part in bringing about a tumultuous climax which makes Waco seem like a fireworks party.