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The Wake Up (Paperback)

by Robert Ferrigno (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Hutchinson; New edition edition (6 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091794706
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091794705
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 892,234 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Strange the things our fates pivoted on: a kid selling gum and candy, a hard charger in a hurry, and a beached spook with a bad attitude.' The beached spook is Frank Thorpe, in limbo having recently left an off-the-books American Intelligence unit after an operation went down river. The 'hard charger' was a stranger whom Frank saw mow down a young kid selling sweets at the airport and keep going without so much as a backward glance. Almost on a whim Frank decides to use all his skills and resources to give that stranger what they call in his trade 'a wake up'. Not that Thorpe intends any permanent damage, just a little tap to get the hard charger's attention, to show him how quickly the storm clouds could roll in on his little world. Unfortunately, the little 'wake up' sets up a chain reaction which ends in far more serious ramifications than Frank could ever have anticipated. And as Thorpe tries to mend things he himself finds someone from his own past is out to give him a rather bigger 'wake up'.
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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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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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