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Benjamin Black
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Publisher | Picador | ||
ISBN | 9780330461252 | ||
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Janice
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Synopsis
William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When he gets wind of a hostile biography planned for him by the investigative journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband, John Glass, to pen the official line. But Glass' young researcher tries to blackmail him, and Glass is horrified, fearing that his own secrets, as well as the Mulhollands', are at risk. He slings him off the project, only to hear from the NYPD that the man he has nicknamed 'the Lemur' has been found fatally shot ...Silence cannot be bought - even by one of New York's wealthiest families. Riddled with explosive secrets, "The Lemur" is a brilliant contemporary thriller that sees Benjamin Black at the top of his game.
Review
The title for this book is 'The Lemur' which is the nick name that Big Bill Mulholland's son-in-law gives the researcher who he engages for help with the book he has been commissioned to write on Big Bill.
The book is just 184 pages long but what a great deal goes into those pages. We have murder, we have John Glass's mistress and we have his wifes' affairs so what else could you want? The Lemur goes at such a fast pace it is hard at times to keep up with whom is with who?
The story has style and we learn that Bill was in the CIA and many other covert operations, and this is why he only trusts John Glass to write the book about him. Why John, because he hopes that he will not uncover too much of his unsavory past or, that is what we are led to believe, or is that another red herring?
I enjoyed this book, but felt there could have been a lot more about what else Big Bill got upto or is that to come in a further novel!!
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