Author: J. Ryan
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published Date: November 28th 2015
Genre: YA, Mystery,
Page Count: 133
Format: Kindle
My Rating: ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
Sixteen year old Joe and his girlfriend Becks Bowman must learn the hard way how to deal with the criminal underworld after his father, secret agent Commander Julius Grayling, disappears. Desperately missing his father and failing at school, Joe is in deep trouble for driving underage, and suspected of a hit and run. In a chance encounter with the real culprit, a drug runner, Joe attracts the attention of billionaire drugs baron Alfredo Bertolini, who is hell bent on revenge.
Joe is offered a glamorous job as chauffeur to the charismatic Monsieur Le Directeur of L’Ētoile Fine Wines, but his world implodes when he realises that he has been set up as a drug runner, in a Bentley loaded with cocaine and men with guns behind him. In the most terrifying drive of his life, Joe has to resort to some unusual tactics to deal with his unwelcome company.
But even more danger awaits Joe and Becks when they confront Monsieur Le Directeur. The price of discovering whether he is friend or foe to Joe’s father turns into a nightmare of darkness, fire and water that drives the teenagers to the edge of despair.
This series draws its appeal from Joe’s desperate search and love for his father and features compelling characters, fast cars and heart-stopping action.
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My Review:
"Joe if someone had asked me if you would ever do something like this, I would have said absolutely not, that you just weren't the type. Now, I feel as though I hardly know you. "
When Joe is caught out late at night driving without a
license and suspected of hitting a young man and then running, he is caught by
the police and taken home to his mum and grandad. From there he is caught up in
a legal case, and suspended from school. With this he is now spending all of his time working
and searching for a new job and trying to figure out where his dad is and if he
even remembers him at all. While working
one day he searches for a new job and finds one that sounds like his dream job,
driving a fast car and delivering wines. He gets the job almost immediately and
moves to Bristol in order to be able to deliver the wines when needed.
"Am I sailing
with the man who waved back to Dad? The colleague that Mum had said had sailed
over from Marseilles? But even if I dared to ask,, I'm not sure where I'd began.
"
One day when he is driving Monsieur (his boss) he takes him
out on his boat and that’s when Joe remembers a memory from his father and
begins to wonder if maybe this Monsieur is someone who knew his father and
maybe he would know where his father was now.
As Joe continues to do the deliveries he realizes that
something isn’t right and one night he opens them and sees that he’s not just
delivering wine, but also cigars and an illegal substance. One that if he was
caught with, would get him thrown into jail for a very long time.
With this new realization he knows he has to try to tell the
police and find a way out of this job without getting killed. Easier said than
done though and he has multiple attempts on his life, and it isn’t until he is
able to contact his best friend Beck’s and she gets a message to the police
that he is able to get out alive.
Overall I did struggle with this book a little at first, do it being a little slow paced and not understanding certain slang terms. But I did end up enjoy the last half of the book especially when him and Beck's were trying to find a way to safety.
If you want a quick action novel I would say this is a pretty good choice.
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