One Way Flight
by DC Taplin
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Pub Date Aug 05 2021 | Archive Date Sep 09 2021
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Description
What would you do to make your dreams come true?
It’s early-eighties London and Micky Targett has a problem – everyone is making it big except him. Try as he might, he can’t catch a break. It’s a desperate situation, but the semi-wide Micky has a solution.
A chance encounter launches him from the tedium of a dead-end job, into the immoral and illegal world of European ‘free-enterprise.’ Unimagined riches are finally his, and when the rocket-fueled pace of his life proves too much for his beloved Julie, there is line of candidates ready and willing to take her place.
The problem is he’s suddenly a serious criminal, with serious responsibilities. He has scaled the mountain top, the question is, with friends and habits like his, how long can he stay there?
Based on actual events, and detailed with shocking violence, real-life crimes and gallows humour, One Way Flight heaves aside the rock of the nineteen-eighties and shines a mega-watt light at what crawls from underneath.
"If Guy Ritchie writes a novel he will hope it is as good as this," Mallorca Post.
One Way Flight is part one of the Micky Targett/Essex noir series.
Advance Praise
"If Guy Ritchie writes a novel he will hope it is as good as this," Mallorca Post.
"If Guy Ritchie writes a novel he will hope it is as good as this," Mallorca Post.
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798450584522 |
| PRICE | $1.38 (USD) |
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Robin P, Reviewer
This is an outstanding debut novel. DC Taplin is the sort of author one gets excited to have found and then look forward to everything else they write. The authorial voice of the first person narrative is written with a raw and compelling energy. I have so much empathy for Micky Target!
The plot takes one screaming along the 1980s motorway of drug culture, organized crime and Maggie's boom and bust economy.
There are moments of graphic violence but also it's a caper quite on a par with The Italian Job. Self-love, self-doubt, self-recrimination - all part of the jigsaw of life. Read it: we all have a lesson to learn.
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