Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
After pulling off the biggest bank robbery Ireland has ever seen ex-IRA man Ructions O’Hare should be living the high life. Only in his world few things are ever simple, and danger is usually just around the next corner. His former comrades want their cut of the stolen millions, just as the stock market crash wipes most of them out. Faced with bankruptcy and a bullet in the back of the head there is only one thing O’Hare can do, go after an even bigger pot of gold.
Right on cue comes the chance to find the gold spirted out of Germany at the end of the war by Herman Goering thanks to a map hidden in a baton once owned by the infamous Nazi leader. All he has to do is solve the riddle of where the gold is hidden wit the police forces of three countries, the IRA and a gang of German neo-Nazis on his tail. Just another day at the office for a crook with one more life than the average cat.
This second outing for the irrepressible Ructions O’Hare is a switchback ride of deceptions and double crosses, packed with nail-biting action and suspense. O’Rawe sets out a high concept, high stakes plot and delivers the goods on every page. He also writes with an authenticity born of experience about the way a paramilitary organization operates.
This has the makings of a series that could run and run, with its central character getting involved in mayhem that he somehow manages to spin to his advantage. That makes for compulsive reading, ride again Ructions O’Hare.
