So another adventure for Jack Nightingale and as usual it was fast paced, brilliant, often dark but offset with ironic humour and the most fun you are likely to have with a book for a while. The cops aren’t getting anywhere, so Jack Nightingale’s nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. In this instalment, after all the work Jack has put in to make his world right again, he is in for a bit of a rollercoaster A killer is murdering Goths with brutal relish – skinning and butchering them. Hell wouldn’t be a good place for Jack, because I think they would punish him by forcing Jack to quit smoking and I can’t imagine Jack without his Marlboros.moreĪ killer is murdering Goths with brutal relish – skinning and butchering them. I really hope there is a follow up novel, and that Jack isn’t really well… Dead. Also, the paranormal aspect was introduced so much later in this novel than others, and I really do like seeing Jack navigate his way around a world he doesn’t understand. However, that first part of the book did deter me momentarily. The main reason it didn’t was the start seemed to be very slow – Jack going around and talking to the families and getting the first clue seemed to drag on, but once I got to 50% through, there was no stopping me. Of the Jack Nightingale series, the previous book rated a 10 star review from me, and I lauded it to the heavens, and was hoping this book would gain the same reaction. My favourite character would have to be Proserpine and her faithful collie, and I was so happy when she popped up! I would adopt that dog in a heartbeat if I wasn’t so sure it would eat me for breakfast. Jack is a hero like no other, part hardboiled chain smoking P.I., part spell casting wizard – he makes me want to smack him and then hug him all at the same time.
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The series has been built nicely and all the characters are well rounded and real. The trouble he gets himself in is usually paranormal in nature, but also criminal. Leather has woven the world of Nightingale into a very entertaining and dangerous place, filled with gangsters, Satanists and cops. Jack is a hero like no other, part hardboiled chain smoking P.I., part spell casting wizard – he makes me want I was excited to read the latest Jack Nightingale novel, and it certainly didn’t disappoint.
I was excited to read the latest Jack Nightingale novel, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. It leaves him with only one way to stop the carnage. Nor can he run, for the Order has connections across the world. The Order will stop at nothing to protect their secrets and Nightingale realises that there is nothing he can do to protect himself. Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to a Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order of Nine Angels.Īs Nightingale closes in on the killers, the tables are turned and he finds himself in the firing line, along with his friends and family. The cops aren't getting anywhere, so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. Jack Nightingale returns in his fifth nail-biting adventure.Ī killer is murdering Goths with brutal relish - skinning and butchering them. Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to a Satanic child-sacr Legendary P.I. A killer is murdering Goths with brutal relish - skinning and butchering them. Jack Nightingale returns in his fifth nail-biting adventure.