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Hide and Seek
Feigning death is almost a sure way of ensuring no one will look for you when you go missing. Or so Michael thinks...
Michael Kenyon is part of the newly legalised world of big time gambling, front man at a glittering casino. Ex-soldier, ex-policeman, accountant, and company director, Michael has been ‘bought’ by American mobsters, secretly intent on infiltrating Britain.
Married twice, Michael knows he is capable of failure, and so when his American bosses decide they need a scapegoat for their plan, Michael finds that he is the dispensable one. He can’t let this happen. He has to disappear in his own way: by feigning death. But he soon finds that even though people go missing everyday, they are usually found.
Using all his skills and past training, he sets in motion a complex scheme to vanish off the face of the earth. Which works - until decades later his journalist son, Stephen, comes looking for him. Can Michael Kenyon remain hidden, now Stephen’s inquiries have alerted others to his survival? And what of the other men, who have started to hunt him too...?
Michael Kenyon is part of the newly legalised world of big time gambling, front man at a glittering casino. Ex-soldier, ex-policeman, accountant, and company director, Michael has been ‘bought’ by American mobsters, secretly intent on infiltrating Britain.
Married twice, Michael knows he is capable of failure, and so when his American bosses decide they need a scapegoat for their plan, Michael finds that he is the dispensable one. He can’t let this happen. He has to disappear in his own way: by feigning death. But he soon finds that even though people go missing everyday, they are usually found.
Using all his skills and past training, he sets in motion a complex scheme to vanish off the face of the earth. Which works - until decades later his journalist son, Stephen, comes looking for him. Can Michael Kenyon remain hidden, now Stephen’s inquiries have alerted others to his survival? And what of the other men, who have started to hunt him too...?
479 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1994
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December 7, 2017
It was a book that never end. First the story of the father and then when you thought he sort of made it and would disappear...the story of the son started. It became a bit maudlin, and the son’s hitting on a teenager but “really mature for her age” a bit like her mother... but you k ow what. I read it to the end! It was a good 4 stars.
November 4, 2022
A truly enjoyable and gripping read.
This is a great story with many facets and interesting characters. I takes place over a period of time which covers the whole of my lifetime and cleverly includes little historical social details that brought it alive for me. This overlaid the main story which was based on the two separate stories of a father and estranged son which gradually come together in a gripping conclusion.
This is a great story with many facets and interesting characters. I takes place over a period of time which covers the whole of my lifetime and cleverly includes little historical social details that brought it alive for me. This overlaid the main story which was based on the two separate stories of a father and estranged son which gradually come together in a gripping conclusion.
April 2, 2023
very intense adventure!
I loved the fact that filial ties are strong and the need to see your biological parent important. I allreciayed that it led to encounters
I loved the fact that filial ties are strong and the need to see your biological parent important. I allreciayed that it led to encounters
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