On the Spotlight: The Gail Force, by Robert Lane
Mason Alley Publishing – Release date: September 20th 2106
Available in trade paper (ISBN: 978-0692670446, $14.95) and eBook ($4.99) editions
"a consistently entertaining crime
thriller…The plot crackles with energy and suspense. The writing is
crisp...clever.” –Kirkus
"Charm and humor permeate the pages of the surprising thriller.
There's little chance that anyone will turn the last page before developing a
craving for the next installment." –ForeWord
Reviews
Award-winning novelist Robert Lane, who has drawn comparisons to John
D. MacDonald, has created one of the most compelling characters in mystery
today. PI Jake Travis is tough, smart,
wise and wisecracking. He’s hailed as “a winning hero”—and this time, Jake has
an elaborate knot to untangle.
While trying to expose a corrupt Miami art dealer, Jake goes
undercover for the FBI. The gallery's owner, Phillip Agatha, is more enchanted
with murder than he is with art. Aboard Agatha's luxury yacht, the Gail Force,
Jake is taken with Agatha's hospitality—and with his alluring assistant,
Christina, a woman who harbors her own secrets. Unknowingly, Jake plays into
Agatha's hands and initiates actions that could cause an innocent girl to die.
As Jake struggles to save the girl, unearth a rogue FBI
agent, and bring Agatha to justice, his greatest challenge is to stay loyal to
his girlfriend Kathleen—and to withstand the Gail Force. As Jake himself observes, “After all,
everything’s a game. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you don’t
know what game you’re playing.” This
game is on…
The Gail Force is crime
fiction writing at its finest. With a
storyline that races from the opening page, characters that stay with readers
long after the final page is turned, and the wit, wisdom, lust for life, and
cynicism of Jake Travis, The Gail Force will
leave readers breathless.
Robert Lane resides on Florida’s west coast. His debut Jake
Travis novel, The
Second Letter, was received with critical acclaim and was awarded the Gold
Medal in the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) 2015 Benjamin
Franklin Award for Best New Voice: Fiction.
His other novels in the stand alone series are Cooler Than Blood, and The
Cardinal’s Sin.
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