Jack of Hearts
by Ken Scott
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Author: Ken ScottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-23
ISBN: 0976277913
Number of pages: 318
Publisher: Bootleg Press
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Book Review: One Gem of a Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I just can't say enough good about this book. Captivating, engrossing, thrilling, three words that apply, but then there's pulse-racing, tense and satisfying too. This book is all of those as well as a damn good read.
Meet Banker Bob Hegge. A man long overdue for a promotion he's never going to get. Maybe once upon a time he was an eager young man, looking to a bright future in the British banking biz, but during the twenty years he'd been on the job, he'd been beating back by an unrelenting system and an overbearing boss. Plus his wife is having an affair and he doesn't seem to be getting on too well with his kids. He's just a down and out guy, who is down and out on his luck. Lesser men have taking sleeping pills or jumped from the Newcastle Bridge for less, but not Bob.
He decides to get even.
He decides to rob the bank. However, he knows he can't go blasting in with a gun. Besides, he doesn't own a gun. So he starts to plan. And he comes up with something so simple, so ingenious, a way to separate a whole bunch of money from the bank. Sure the finger of guilt will be pointed straight at him, but proof, if he pulls it off, if he does it right, proof will be impossible to find.
However, there will be those looking for it and you should look for this book. You won't be able to put it down. Mr. Scott's debut thriller is stuffed full of suspense, with characters so accurately drawn you can't help but being pulled into their story. This is one gem of a good book.
Summary of Jack of Hearts
Bob Heggie is a banker at the end of a dead end career. He hates his job, his boss, his life. His wife has left him. He hardly knows his kids and his closest friend is a down and out newspaper seller and they're not really close. In the early mornings he wanders the moors of Northern England with a pair of dogs he doesn't like, listening to Bob Dylan sing about a great bank robbery on his iPod. The Jack of Hearts in that song is the kind of man Bob imagines himself to be, but he knows he'll always be just plain old boring Bob Heggie Then one morning he is nearly killed in an armed robbery and he starts to think. If he were to steal the bank's money, he'd come up with a better way. But would he survive to spend his ill gotten gains?Action & Adventure Books
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