Moscow Drive (Rifkin & Whelan Mersey Mojo Book 1)
Genre: Kindle Edition
Brand: Black Door Books
Author: Mark Porter
Price: £0.00
Take a small time professional boxer, an ice cream man who believes he is Wyatt Earp’s representative in the modern world and a whole shed full of drugs and laundered money and place it against a back drop of revenge.
Mix in one body that turns up unexpectedly and out of the blue and another that is more ‘hands on’ and things start to get complicated.
Set in Liverpool with characters as colourful as the city itself, Moscow Drive checks in at Leeds and Rhyl to visit an undertaker who does not always ‘go through the books’ and London to find a man who knew a man who killed a man.
Alex’s boxing career is winding down; he works doors at the weekend and has been involved in a few scares and scrapes in his time. Now though, the stakes have grown considerably higher. His best mate McIver flounced off to London with a mouth even bigger than his plans and got himself murdered.
Maurice the ice cream man and Janey his coldly sarcastic beautician girlfriend are cluttering the house and Dutch is back out of prison and needs money.
Alex just wants to help and in return he wants some help to avenge his friend, murder just doesn’t sit well, doesn’t feel right, even when the victim is or was a waster..
Is Alex up to it? Is he in over his head? Can Maurice marshal a posse before it’s too late? Maybe, yes and possibly are just some of the answers but the questions, twists and laughs keep coming in a fast paced, darkly comic crime thriller that proves you don’t have to be Rebus to know when something just went belly up.
“Moscow Drive” is the first volume of the Rifkin & Whelan Mersey Mojo series
".Mark Porter’s writing, like his humour, cuts deep because the words are sharper than they appear. You might not even feel it until they begin to twist inside of you. By then, you’re a goner, but you’ll die of admiration. And chances are, they'll have to wipe that smile off your face." - Tim Bryant
83,000 words, some of which describe violence in colourful language. Not for the easily offended.
Mix in one body that turns up unexpectedly and out of the blue and another that is more ‘hands on’ and things start to get complicated.
Set in Liverpool with characters as colourful as the city itself, Moscow Drive checks in at Leeds and Rhyl to visit an undertaker who does not always ‘go through the books’ and London to find a man who knew a man who killed a man.
Alex’s boxing career is winding down; he works doors at the weekend and has been involved in a few scares and scrapes in his time. Now though, the stakes have grown considerably higher. His best mate McIver flounced off to London with a mouth even bigger than his plans and got himself murdered.
Maurice the ice cream man and Janey his coldly sarcastic beautician girlfriend are cluttering the house and Dutch is back out of prison and needs money.
Alex just wants to help and in return he wants some help to avenge his friend, murder just doesn’t sit well, doesn’t feel right, even when the victim is or was a waster..
Is Alex up to it? Is he in over his head? Can Maurice marshal a posse before it’s too late? Maybe, yes and possibly are just some of the answers but the questions, twists and laughs keep coming in a fast paced, darkly comic crime thriller that proves you don’t have to be Rebus to know when something just went belly up.
“Moscow Drive” is the first volume of the Rifkin & Whelan Mersey Mojo series
".Mark Porter’s writing, like his humour, cuts deep because the words are sharper than they appear. You might not even feel it until they begin to twist inside of you. By then, you’re a goner, but you’ll die of admiration. And chances are, they'll have to wipe that smile off your face." - Tim Bryant
83,000 words, some of which describe violence in colourful language. Not for the easily offended.