Source: Review copy
Publication: 8 October 2019 from Strident Publishing
PP: 272
ISBN-13: 978-1910829387
In cities across North America people are dying in seemingly impossible ways. Is history s most outrageous serial killer on the loose? When LAPD Detective Sarah Tracy is secretly instructed to recruit Craig McIntyre to help her investigate the deaths, she is unaware that his mere presence can transform people s darkest thoughts into action. As Sarah and Craig hunt the murky underbelly of LA for the malevolent figure responsible for the bizarre deaths, they stumble upon the most expensive narcotic ever to hit the streets – a substance that promises something so unbelievable that users are willing to risk death to experience it. With government black ops agency head Senator Tampoline always lurking in the shadows, Craig is used to being hunted. Now he is the hunter. And thousands could die if he fails to track down the killer.
I am delighted to welcome Gordon Brown to my blog today and excited to share with you an exclusive extract from his new thriller, Highest Lives.
SHOES
(One year earlier)
The Man With Dead Eyes moves the gun in his hand from
vertical to horizontal.
Across the street, a young woman, pushing a crying baby
buried in a Silver Cross stroller, is trying to answer her cell
phone and steer at the same time. A young male, sitting on a
park bench, is munching on a sandwich from Subway, his last
meal – ever.
Three men, each manacled to the God of fashion, are ranged
across the sidewalk fifty yards behind the young woman with
the Silver Cross stroller. One is dressed in a white vest hiding
beneath a cream boating jacket underscored with lime pants.
His shoes are loafers from twenty years ago. Next to him, the
man with the longest hair is dressed as sharply as a bur from a
metal rod. His suit cost more than he can afford. His shirt cost
more than the suit and the tie cost more than both put together.
The third in the trio of fashionistas is sporting deceptive casual,
driven by dollar signs. His jeans, sweater, sneakers and leather
belt all display high-end designer labels. The three are on the
way to meet their partners. Had they a future, the resultant party
of four men and two women would boost the profit of a new
Nigerian fusion restaurant.
A police officer is located behind and to the left of The Man
With Dead Eyes. Had he stopped to pick up his usual morning
coffee from Zeta’s Café, he would be behind and to the right.
He would see the gun in the hand of The Man With Dead Eyes
and could take him down. But the police officer declined to visit
Zeta’s. A raging ulcer he refuses to deal with is a small volcano
in his gut this morning and drinking coffee is like pouring salt on
a severed leg joint. His fifteen-year service party, to be held this
Friday in Mulligan’s, will be flipped to a wake.
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Now does that not sound compelling? My thanks to Gordon Brown for the use of this extract.
Gordon has been writing since his teens and has six crime thrillers published – his latest, Deepest Wounds, being the third in the Craig McIntyre series, is out now.
Gordon helped found Bloody Scotland – Scotland’s International Crime Writing Festival and lives in Scotland. He’s married with two children. Gordon once quit his job in London to fly across the Atlantic to be with his future wife. He has also delivered pizzas in Toronto, sold non alcoholic beer in the Middle East, launched a creativity training business called Brain Juice and floated a high tech company on the London Stock Exchange.
He almost had a toy launched by a major toy company, has an MBA, loves music, is a DJ on local radio, compered the main stage at a two-day music festival and was once booed by 49,000 people while on the pitch at a major football Cup Final.
Want to know more – go to http://www.gordonjbrown.com/
Follow him on Twitter @GoJaBrown
Live and Deadly 
thanks for the blog tour support Mary x
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