Icarus

by RussellAndrews (Author)

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  2010

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  Icarus. The boy who flew too close to the sun. The boy who fell to his death. It is a story that captured the imagination of ten year-old Jack Keller, but one that is also eerily prescient. For a vicious assault resulted in the murder of Jack's mother, sending her plummeting seventeen storeys to her death - right in front of her son's eyes. Thirty years later, and history is repeating itself in the same horrific manner. Kid Demeter, a physiotherapist Jack helped raise as a teenager, has fallen to his death. The police think it was an accident, but Jack doesn't believe them. For Kid had confided in Jack about his ongoing relationships with a string of women, women he gave a series of intriguing nicknames. The Mortician. The Mistake. The Destination. The Murderess. As Jack delves into Kid's world, and he realises just how high the stakes really are, he knows only one thing for certain: he must find the killer before the killer finds him, and makes him the final victim ...

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  2002

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  When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid's personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid's death, he realises that his wife's murder was the catalyst of all that followed.

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  2001

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