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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Nathan Lyme is the type of individual most of us have met, and wished we hadn’t. On the surface a nice bloke, but one word out of turn and the shutters come down on his eyes, and a possibility of violence crackles in the air.
Nathan is a criminal. Not big time, not small time. Medium time I suppose.
Dalton Everest is a high school teacher. Small in stature, but big in rambunctiousness, he is always the smartest in the room. He knows a lot about some things and a little about a lot of things and doesn’t hold back from sharing his knowledge.
Melanie is a young French woman who Nathan picked up in France and brought to the USA to assist him in his nefarious ways, but it didn’t work out, so she’s left to hustle a living. A little shoplifting here, a little stripping there. Nathan and Dalton form a strange friendship, and then Nathan pays Melanie to pose as Dalton’s girlfriend for no apparent reason, apart from the fact that he can, and enjoys being a puppet master to them.
So, this odd trio float in and out of the L.A. hipster/punk/criminal scene at the tail end of the Twentieth century as Nathan and Dalton set out on a burglary spree around Angelino Heights, which can only end badly.
This is a neat, sharp trip, that reminds me of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of The City, and the movie Two Days In The Valley which can only be good.
Do try to catch it.
