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Bad Day for a Fat Boy (Paperback)

by Dirk Robertson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: The X Press (1 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902934199
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902934198
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,514,281 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Overweight musician Murphy Kennedy is not in the business of trafficking drugs, guns, or any other illegal contraband. His occupation is trafficking musical instruments - from London to New York to be exact. A fairly safe and uneventful occupation under normal circumstances, but when an expensive Amati violin is stolen en route, his quest to get it back changes everything. The mild-mannered Londoner finds himself facing the wrath of the Chinese Triads, Yardies and a host of criminal elements in both cities, and it is soon clear that this is about more than a missing violin.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A Letdown, 21 Jun 2007
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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I'd heard good things about Robertson's first book, Highland T'ing, and so when I saw this at a used book sale, I snapped it up. The story follows ex-violin player Murray Kennedy, a somewhat overweight and depressed fella' who carries a torch for his dead wife and is a somewhat distracted father to his four-year-old girl. He lives in London with the beautiful Beverly, the daughter of Jamaican parents and brother to a notorious yardie. While their relationship has loads of odd-couple potential, it's never really realized, and the improbability of their having gotten together in the first place looms over the book.

The story is set in motion when Murray is assigned to courier an almost priceless violin from Paris to New York. This brings him into contact with a ruthless triad gang involved in human trafficking and a turf war within it's organization. It also brings him into contact with the NYPD and one of its abrasive detectives. Unfortunately, the missing violin, human trafficking, and triad infighting never mesh at all and feel rather clumsily lumped together. Similarly, Murray's involvement is a bit of mystery -- once the violin is stolen, the Chinese thugs keep trying to kill him (although there's no reason to), and later, the triads use him to deliver a message, which makes even less sense. However, this all allows Murray to figure everything out and engineer some small smidgen of justice with the help of the police. Ultimately the book doesn't make a lot of sense though, and there's little to recommend it (although I did like how Murray and Beverly's relationship evolves over the course of the story).
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