Glitterbug

by Tony Kenrick

Awakening from a severe accident without his memory, former skip tracer--an agent who locates people who have walked away from their responsibilities--Jerry Parrish retraces his last unfinished case in an attempt to regain his memory.

287 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Before becoming a full-time writer Tony Kenrick worked as an advertising copywriter in Sydney, Toronto, NYC, San Francisco, and London, 1953-72. On the dust jackets of many of his novels Kenrick claimed the following: "I hated being a lumberjack; those shirts itch something awful. And I was a failure as a boxer, too. I was what's known in the fight game as a crier; whenever I got hit, I'd burst into tears. They'd work on me feverishly between rounds, but they could never stanch the flow. "

Kenrick was never a logger nor a prize-fighter; this is a typical example of his humor, and very typical of the humor found in his books.

Between 1971 - 1996 he wrote seventeen novels.

Reviews

[Hanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 some things were accurate and some things he knew he always wanted

[Pat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A much better book than I expected--a sympathetic main character with amnesia who tells the tale in the first person and a plot full of twists and turns.