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Daz Croxley. An unemployable, inner-city dwelling retro-punk. Illiterate because of his dyslexia - but possessed of his own peculiar intelligence. Struggling to pay off his corrupt landlord, Daz loots an electronics shop during an inner-city riot. Included in his bounty is a handful of sequentially-numbered GBP20 notes. Daz can't know that this money comes from a vastly larger hoard, the product of a fraudulent property deal, a hoard for which men have already died. But others know. The achitect of the fraud for one - serving his jail term but still with a dangerously long reach. Police officers - not all batting for the same team. Other criminals out for what they can get. When word leaks out that Daz knows the location of the money, his life and the lives of his few real friends are in peril. His only hope is to play his pursuers off against each other in a deadly game of bluff and double bluff.
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Leicester-based Rod Duncan is a house-husband in his mid-thirties, whose wife teaches English to asylum seekers. Born in Wales, Rod Duncan moved to Taiwan in 1989, where he established an environmental education development programme on behalf of the Baha'i community. He returned to Leicester in 1993. BACKLASH is Rod Duncan's first novel.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed Rod Duncan's first novel, Backlash, immensely, so it was no surprise to discover that its successor, Breakbeat, is just as good, if not better. Set against the distant backdrop of the riot featured in the first book, Breakbeat reaches out in a tangential direction, examining the plight of Daz Croxley, a dyslexic, inner city wastrel, who stumbles across a hoard of underworld cash. From that moment on, the plot of the book is relatively straightforward: a tangled web of double-dealing villains do their best to retrieve the swag. But it's the character of Croxley that lifts the story way above the ordinary. Duncan, a dyslexic himself, presents his hero sympathetically, but fairly, with all the abilities and disabilities of the condition, allowing the reader a unique insight into the difficulties - and rewards - of such a mindset. In the end, it's Croxley's extraordinary spatial awareness and his gift of quick-thinking that see him through the gripping conclusion. If you like a book with pace, action, and characters drawn with such crystal clear prose that you can almost feel their breath on your face, read this book. Highly recommended.
4 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An exciting, page turner of a crime novel, Backlash also explores the effects of dyslexia in a sensitive and informed way, for this reason it should be recommended to teachers, social workers and anyone working with children and young people.
The characters of Daz, a young, dyslexic drop-out, Patty an ageing misanthrope and Kat, an employment officer who's too inclined to think for herself, are so believeable I've started looking out for them in the street.
The action is set in Leicester, complete with derelict factories, redevelopment and urban foxes. The plot is realistic with some toe-curling cliff-hanger moments and plenty of atmosphere. It is helps to flesh out the events in Backlash, Rod Duncan's previous book, but stands on its own. It is an easy, accessible read but by no means undemanding as the reader is made to sympathise with the kind of individual most of us would take care not to get too closely involved with.
The characters of Daz, a young, dyslexic drop-out, Patty an ageing misanthrope and Kat, an employment officer who's too inclined to think for herself, are so believeable I've started looking out for them in the street.
The action is set in Leicester, complete with derelict factories, redevelopment and urban foxes. The plot is realistic with some toe-curling cliff-hanger moments and plenty of atmosphere. It is helps to flesh out the events in Backlash, Rod Duncan's previous book, but stands on its own. It is an easy, accessible read but by no means undemanding as the reader is made to sympathise with the kind of individual most of us would take care not to get too closely involved with.
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