Review: Thrilling, alternative hero 'Ben Bracken' who enters the dark world surrounding the gangster 'Baby and the Brandy' legend!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
This book is essentially the birthday of a new edgy character called Ben Bracken. If I had to describe him in a sentence I would say he is a  military trained, patriotic vigilante murderer with a kind heart. He is a paradox in itself because he chooses to postpone his own mission for the sake of a barely known acquaintance (who did him one favour), and yet has the ability to string up and torture an enemy without a second thought. How about that for stirring your curiosity, and making you unable to put the book down until the many secrets in the story are finally revealed?The story is a grenade the second you read the first pages, describing Ben'sSebastian Coe sprint into Manchester after somehow managing to escape from prison. The Author leads you in delicious anticipation of discovering how he did just that later on in the book. I love the fact that you are made to wait with bated breath for the answers to this question and several more, until the Author takes pity on you and reveals each mystery chapter by chapter.Ben Bracken himself paves the floor with good intentions which invariably end up launching him from a great height into a new hell.  He has a weird kind of moral patriotism which allows him to justify killing if it is to protect his country or friend., even after he has been slung out of the army.  The baby and the brandy legend adds intrigue to an already thrilling book.The acquaintance he decides to help has a complex and often dangerous family, and Ben finds himself stringing up people from curtains, burning an entire restaurant boat to the ground, and sitting with a warm drink, chatting amiably to a top of the chain gangster. This is not a book without an avalanche of action!I am so pleased that the title of this book has a brackets (1) in its title. I am poised at the starter point and ready to beam over to Amazon when digit (2) checks in with some new chapters!  I will race you there!Highly Recommend!