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The Wake Up (Hardcover)

by Robert Ferrigno (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Hutchinson (Dec 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009179465X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091794651
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,340,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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rapid, lurid and smartly put together. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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Frank Thorpe, a man in his early 40s, is recently retired from an off-the-books USA intelligence unit. Thorpe is smart, tough, and playful, but his loner status and temperamental streak inhibited his rise within the unit, and indeed he was forced into early retirement for all the wrong reasons. At an airport, he watches a rich business man, a man named McCall, literally trample a young Hispanic boy and not look back. He decides to teach McCall a lesson...he won't do him any real harm, but he wants to give the man a Wake Up...a term used in the unit when one wanted to remind a restless contact of his or her vulnerability. Just a taste of payback, a slight upset in the guy's sunny world...Thorpe just wants to teach him some manners. One last good deed. Tragically, when he tries to monkey with the guy's life, he sets up a chain reaction which ends in far more serious ramifications than Thorpe could ever have anticipated. He now has to clean up the mess he created, and, by extension, redeem his life. It's going to take all his skills, and the help of ex-spook Billy, a man who does nothing without being paid back.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great - but not classic Ferrigno, 24 Aug 2005
By Sam "samueltyler" (Reading, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wake Up (Paperback)
Robert Ferrigno has quickly become one of my favourite authors. His blend of real characters set in the seedy underbelly of popular US cities has been a great formula.

'The Wake Up' continues this winning formula as we follow an ex-covert ops worker as he comes to terms with unemployment. To fill in his time he decides to seek revenge on a snobby businessman who had the guile to knock over a small boy without apologising.

However, this harmless wake-up soon delves the covert operator into a world of designer drugs - and designer art. Is he too rusty to survive the powder keg he has just set off?

This book is very good and I rate it highly within the crime genre but having read Ferrigno's back catalogue it can not hold a candle to the likes of 'Flinch' and 'Heartbreaker'. These two books follow the same pattern as 'The Wake Up' but feel fresher.

Highly recommended but not brilliant compared to Ferrigno's normal standard.

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