The Day the Thames Caught Fire (Firecrest Books) - Softcover

Peter Chambers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859979857 ISBN 13: 9780859979856

Publisher: Firecrest Books, 1989

Synopsis

An offer of a quarter of a million pounds for a day's work, attracts mercenary Philip Baxter, but leads him to distrust his new employers, who plan on stealing gold bullion from a riverfront warehouse

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The former president of the British Crime Writers Association, and author of The Hunting of Mr. Gloves , here offers an overly ambitious and disappointing novel with a large cast that includes British spies, politicians, merchant seamen, beautiful women and a Mafia hit man. In Majorca, an enigmatic stranger hires unemployed mercenary Major Philip Baxter, nicknamed the Bad Major, to lead a daring robbery. The scheme: to steal 10 million in gold bullion from a well-guarded, well-fortified building in central London in broad daylight. Predictably, the elaborate planning and execution of the crime allows ample time for some of the players to double-cross one another. Chambers's unfocused narrative describes the role and character of each player, no matter how minor, failing to concentrate on the major ones. Cliched dialogue and a flat prose style don't help matters, nor do the irritating and abrupt shifts in the point of view, which occur even in mid-paragraph.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Firecrest Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0859979857
• ISBN 13: 9780859979856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256