James Maynard, a freelance journalist living in an unhappy marriage in the 1970s, unwittingly becomes involved in a bank robbery. Detective Inspector Hubert French, through good old-fashioned painstaking police work, unravels the many twists and turns of the plot. ooOoo Bob Brooks spent over 50 years as a journalist, writer, and editor on trade and technical publications in this country and the United States. Born in Kent he now lives in West Sussex with his wife, Lucy, and has two children, Nicholas and Susan, and a grandson, Ross. He follows Kent cricket and Gillingham FC avidly and when he is not writing spends a considerable amount of time trying to control the weeds in his garden.