Trouble Cross

David A. Wardle

Editora: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.

Sinopse

When Thomas Robel, Insurance Investigator of Pratt Pratt Wally and Pratt, receives a visit from the Director of Claims for the Fidelity Insurance Corporation he thinks he has struck gold – especially when a fat cheque for a retainer is handed over. But that’s where simple profit ends and hard work begins as Robel sets about answering the first question: who has been swindling The Fairfax Corporation out of policy monies? An enjoyable page turning comedy thriller involving a greenhorn insurance investigator, out of his depth and living on his nerves. Trouble Cross is a rollicking parody in the Ian Fleming mode that will keep you guessing to the end with many a comic moment fired from Robel’s inexhaustible store of one-liners along the way.

Disponível desde: 02/03/2015.

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