Leathan Wilkey thinks he has been framed for murder by the victim's father.
Leathan Wilkey has been hired by a diplomat to find a nineteen-year-old.
"He's the son of a friend--I'm doing a favor," says the diplomat, who gives Leathan the teenager's name and a photo and tells him where the kid usually hangs out.
Leathan finds the teenager within the day. When he reaches him, the kid has just been shot. His dying words to Leathan are: "Protect Marianne."
Leathan is left to find Marianne, find out why she needs protecting and from whom, all the while puzzling at what the diplomat didn't tell him.
Simon Cann is the author of the Boniface, Montbretia Armstrong, and Leathan Wilkey books.
In addition to his fiction, Simon has written a range of music-related and business-related books, including the How to Make a Noise series, the most widely ready series about synthesizer sound programming, and Made it in China, about entrepreneurs building businesses in China. He has also worked as a ghostwriter on a number of books.
Before turning full-time to writing, Simon spent nearly two decades as a management consultant, where his clients included aeronautical, pharmaceutical, defense, financial services, chemical, entertainment, and broadcasting companies.
The best thing about Leathan Wilkie is his first name. I have never come across this before, but perhaps I need to go to Scotland. I didn’t mind the book. I read to the end to find out how it ended. There is plenty of action and Leathan has a good heart, if perhaps an overly complicated life. The setting in Paris is well evoked but I found the plot line unconvincing.