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Up For It.: The James Fallon Series. Book 2.
JAMES FALLON IN AMERICA
On a long-planned tour.
Enjoying himself. Not looking for trouble
But trouble often has its own agenda.
Captain Sullivan aimed a broad smile at Fallon and broke the silence. “I did a little reading about you, Mr. Fallon. An interesting life you lead.” “It has its moments,” Fallon returned the smile. “But don’t believe everything. As someone once put ‘Life often reads better than it lives.’”
“You’re here on a tourist visa?” Sullivan held up Fallon’s passport.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“And inside three weeks of arriving in the United States, you take a combat pistol shooting course at the American Pistol Institute in Arizona. Three weeks later, you go on to shoot three men dead in Colorado. Any comments?”
And so a vacation becomes a mission.
On a long-planned tour.
Enjoying himself. Not looking for trouble
But trouble often has its own agenda.
Captain Sullivan aimed a broad smile at Fallon and broke the silence. “I did a little reading about you, Mr. Fallon. An interesting life you lead.” “It has its moments,” Fallon returned the smile. “But don’t believe everything. As someone once put ‘Life often reads better than it lives.’”
“You’re here on a tourist visa?” Sullivan held up Fallon’s passport.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“And inside three weeks of arriving in the United States, you take a combat pistol shooting course at the American Pistol Institute in Arizona. Three weeks later, you go on to shoot three men dead in Colorado. Any comments?”
And so a vacation becomes a mission.
286 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2022
About the author
Tony McManus
16 books14 followersAfter graduating from Shrewsbury Public School, Tony sought a life of adventure and travel, and joined the British Merchant Marine service. Dissatisfied, he signed off in Cape Town, South Africa. After serving as a teenage Special Forces mercenary soldier in Central Africa in 1964, he returned home and joined the British Parachute Regiment (2 PARA). He saw combat in the 74 day Falklands War and was severely wounded in the 14 hour battle to take Goose Ridge. Invalided out, he moved to Canada to re-build his health. He designed and built a log-home in Quebec Province.
Tony pursues and advocates good health, via diet and exercise. An outdoors man, sailor, sea-kayaker and canoeist, he also loves scuba-diving, hiking, back-country skiing and snowshoeing.
Tony pursues and advocates good health, via diet and exercise. An outdoors man, sailor, sea-kayaker and canoeist, he also loves scuba-diving, hiking, back-country skiing and snowshoeing.
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November 26, 2021
James Fallon, Tony McManus’ ex-special forces soldier now running a consulting firm, returns in ‘Up For It’. Set some time after ‘The Sum of Things’ where the character made his debut, Fallon’s business is thriving and he decides to take an extended vacation and fulfil his dream of travelling US 101. He has two of his ex-SAS operatives working as bodyguards for a flamboyant and irascible billionaire, Big Jim Grant, and intends to drop in on them as part of his travels. Joining them on a wild-water canoeing trip, he intervenes when another deadly attempt is made on the life of Grant. After saving Grant’s life, they become firm friends, and Fallon takes over the job of protecting him, while investigating who and why others want him dead. This brings him into contact again with an old nemesis, Richard King, another billionaire who will stop at nothing to gain what he wants. King and Grant are developing prototype fighter planes, the former for the Chinese, and Grant’s as a candidate for the US military. The scene is set for mortal mayhem, and McManus’ thriller doesn’t disappoint.
This is a fast-paced tale, which I read in a couple of days (three-quarters of it in one sitting!). It’s one of those books you shouldn’t start if you expect to get to bed early, as the rhythm and flow of events will have you turning pages late into the night. The first book in the series was really good, and, if anything, this is even better. The descriptions, especially of the multiple action scenes, place the reader alongside Fallon as he puts is special forces skills to work. There is also an interesting exploration of Fallon’s background which adds depth to this character, necessary as the tale takes the protagonist into the darker chasms of his psyche.
A thoroughly enjoyable read from a master of the action thriller genre, highly recommended for fans of Andy McNab and Chris Ryan.
This is a fast-paced tale, which I read in a couple of days (three-quarters of it in one sitting!). It’s one of those books you shouldn’t start if you expect to get to bed early, as the rhythm and flow of events will have you turning pages late into the night. The first book in the series was really good, and, if anything, this is even better. The descriptions, especially of the multiple action scenes, place the reader alongside Fallon as he puts is special forces skills to work. There is also an interesting exploration of Fallon’s background which adds depth to this character, necessary as the tale takes the protagonist into the darker chasms of his psyche.
A thoroughly enjoyable read from a master of the action thriller genre, highly recommended for fans of Andy McNab and Chris Ryan.
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