Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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One fine, warm, late spring morning in London, as commuters are heading to work, seven people are attacked and murdered by knife wielding assassins. What could be the connection between them? Simple, as Famie Madden, a journalist for the IPS news agency, discovers as she takes the stories in her Canary Wharf office. They are all her colleagues, all members of the elite investigation unit, who keep their cards very close to their chests. So close in fact that no one knows what they are investigating. Bit of a puzzle, that.
Paranoia hits the staff hard. Hard enough, that Famie and two colleagues heading home in the same direction fear an attack in a park by a tramp and a bunch of dog walkers.
And then Famie begins to receive typewritten messages. The first, at the last of the seven funerals she attends with two other journalists being ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,’ Blimey, none of the trio of supposedly smart news gatherers recognise one of Bob Dylan’s most famous quotes. I must be getting old, because I did. Sad, or what?
Famie resigns her job, the messages keep arriving, and she keeps digging, as the layers of a major terrorist plot peel back like the skins of an onion, and point at some connection with the Weather Underground radical group of seventies Amerika with a ‘K’. Stranger and stranger still.
Broadcaster Simon Mayo, has written a cracking novel straight out of the day’s headlines, which keeps piling on the pressure before a knockout finale. Perfect for all his followers, and all political thriller fans too. Good stuff.
