- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (7 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743450213
- ISBN-13: 978-0743450218
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,226,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Superintendent Frank Shakespeare receives an anonymous package containing a mobile phone and a black-and-white photograph, his nightmare is just beginning. He's been targeted by a malevolent blackmailer. Someone who knows about Frank's past. A past that could cost Frank his job, his marriage - and worse. Tami Steel meanwhile is adjusting to life on the outside after fourteen years in prison. Framed for a crime she says she didn't commit, Tami is determined to put the past behind her and start anew. But it's not going to be easy. There are people after Tami. People who want to know where her husband is. People who think Tami has the answers. Dangerous people. Tami might find help from an unexpected quarter. For she and Frank Shakespeare are connected by a shared knowledge: a secret pact sealed over fifteen years before. A secret that someone will kill to keep ...
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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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is part of a trilogy. I really enjoyed them. Very clever and thought provoking.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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When Superintendent Frank Shakespeare receives as mobile phone and a photo, he knows his past hasn't come back to haunt him but to murder him, slowly. Tami Steel has just got out after serving ten years for a crime she didn't commit. She wants to find her husband and the man who framed her. Frank Shakespeare's new mobile sends him blackmail instructions. A deliberate fire in a paint factory leaves a body wearing the same ring as the one Tami bought her husband. The Waterfields riot erupts. Shakespeare tries to instigate an inquiry into the riot and get a junior officer suspended, thinking he's protecting her. But he misjudges and actually puts her in increased danger. Shakespeare looks at the photo: two men are dead, one is a corrupt, since-retired police officer, two have gone straight and one is a politician. That leaves himself, a major drug-dealer who's murdered before and Tami's husband. Suddenly the blackmailer gambles and invites everyone to Western Park at 1 am for a tense, satisfying climax. Compulsive, clever and readable. "Burnout" stands alone but I'd also recommend the others in the trilogy, "Backlash" and "Breakbeat".
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