Flawed Perfection

by R.M. Burgess

James Hancock has everything-a comfortable marriage, grown children launched into their chosen careers, and the wealth and jet-setting lifestyle of a successful banker. He's a geeky slightly naive quant who's risen to the highest echelons of the cutthroat world of high finance on the strength of his prodigious mathematical abilities. But even with all the outward signs of personal and professional achievement, he feels an emptiness inside, a yearning for something more. Then he's sent to London, where he meets Roxy Reid, a girl from the mean streets of the East End, the survivor of a tough childhood with a drug addict mother. Lost waif and formidable warrior, unschooled illiterate and genius savant, artless guttersnipe and sophisticated lady, childlike innocent and wise sage, with trusting immaturity and weary cynicism-Roxy is an impossible bundle of contradictions. She enters his life like a bolt of lightning, showing him in a flash how cold and sterile his life has been. Everything about her is wrong-she's far too young, totally alien to everything in his experience, and has long standing ties to organized crime. Drawn into her violent world of drugs and gangs, he must decide whether to risk everything to pursue her.

150 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2019

About the author

I'm a writer, researcher, bike racer, marathon runner, downhill skier, sometime triathlete, lover of life and adrenalin.​ I love creativity more than anything else in my life - to let my imagination run free in everything that I do.

Reviews

[Ricarda Bouncken · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re interested in reading a modern fancy story with a big whip of love, then start reading immediately. Get involved in the cool atmosphere that tightens up by every page. The story starts in a big business NY setting and then partly dives into a very different world. Events and behavior might shock you but also make you think about the world today. You will love some characters and hate others. When you expect to know the end you will probably be very surprised. I got very emotional at the end.

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fun and entertaining, with just the right blend of excitement and sorrow. The characters are extreme and vivid, as in all R M Burgess’ novels. The book pulls you in from the first page, propelling you through this wonderful story of life, love and loss, in a “fast and furious” tempo. Once you start reading it you cannot put it down. There is nothing flawed about this perfection!