
Homage
Julian Rathbone(Author)
Allison & Busby (Publisher)
Published on 17. April 2001
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7490-0530-6 (ISBN)
Description
Chris Shovelin is a private eye, investigating petty theft in a sleepy British seaside town. An ex-alcoholic, ex-hippy and ex-bigshot investigator, middle age has had a calming, numbing effect on him. But all this is to change when he is summoned to La Jolla, California, by an old PI friend from the sixties, Wilbur Jefferson. Shovelin figures it is something important from the urgency of his friend's emails, and the couriered Amex cheques, air ticket and keys to his apartment. And when he arrives at the apartment he realises just how important: Jefferson is lying by the couch with a bullet through his brain. Dazed and grieving for his dead friend, Shovelin is contacted by a woman named China Heart. She was Jefferson's final employer, hiring him to track down her missing half-brother, Jerry Lennox. And now she wants Shovelin to take over where his dead friend left off...A violent, blood-soaked chase along the length of America's West Coast - Homage is a gripping and relentless thriller from one of Britain's finest living novelists
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7490-0530-6 (9780749005306)
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Julian Rathbone's first book was published in 1967 and has been followed by a further 30 novels and one work of non-fiction, translated into fifteen languages. Twice nominated for the Booker Prize, he has been awarded the Deutsches Krimi Preis and the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Macallan Short Story Award. A contributor to various newspapers, magazines and periodicals, he is also a successful television and film script writer whose work has been broadcast in over forty countries. After long spells in Turkey, France and Spain, he is currently living in Hampshire.