A hapless British rocker finds himself entangled in a deadly plot in the Caribbean in this Amazon genre-bestseller comedy crime by Charles Harris
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PAGE TURNER AWARDS
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 EYELANDS LITERARY AWARDS
The most dangerous gig of his life
AxMan Flyn is desperate to make his mark.
A fading British rock-star, he grabs a chance to front a high-profile charity concert in the Caribbean and do some good in the world. But hardly has he arrived than he stumbles in on the assassination of the island's president in a coup. And, to his horror, the new gangster-president frames him as the killer.
AxMan has to go on the run, chased by a police force which is determined to stop him revealing the truth.
A real softie, despite a tough stage image, now he's forced to come out of his shell and fight for his life. And the only person who can help him is another gangster.
But of course nothing is ever straightforward and AxMan's pride and hunger for fame keeps getting in the way - along with his over-eager fans.
Play Me! is an award-nominated comedy crime novel. If stories of fish out of water, unlikely heroes and twisty plots strike a chord with you, you'll love this rollicking witty tale where celebrity rock meets a dangerous underworld of violent mobsters, desperate guerrillas and unscrupulous politicians - and death is on the playlist.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
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978-1-917936-01-9 (9781917936019)
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Charles Harris is a bestselling, award-nominated author and award-winning writer-director.His latest novel, the comedy crime Play Me! has won a place as a finalist for the Page Turner Awards 2025.Harris likes to give his novels a political edge and to go undercover to research them. For Play Me! he worked with SAS veterans, journalists researching high-profile assassinations and charity workers dealing with international corruption. He goes to great lengths to get the right details, to the point of falling off a mountain in the Caribbean.For The Breaking of Liam Glass, a gripping satirical tale of tabloid scoops and betrayal, he smuggled himself into tabloid newsrooms and local government offices. His debut novel, it was an Amazon bestseller and shortlisted for Wishing Shelf and Eyelands International awards. For his second novel, the psychological thriller Room Fifteen, he worked with police and talked his way into a police cell. It also became an Amazon genre bestseller.He has won international TV and film awards for his darkly satirical documentaries, dramatised documentaries and his debut feature movies, the black comedy Paradise Grove. He has had short stories nominated for awards and his non-fiction work includes the bestselling Teach Yourself: Complete Screenwriting Course (John Murray) and Jaws in Space (Creative Essentials). Both are recommended reading on MA screenwriting courses. He has also trained extensively in hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) which he uses to help writers, directors, actors and other artists, is a board member of the Society of Authors - and is a sixth Dan in Aikido.He has a wife lives with him in North London and two sons who don't.
