Latest Roy Grace thriller has eerie similarity to Thai cave rescue
Sometimes a writer gets lucky. The thrilling tension that Peter James builds as the water slowly rises and Mungo struggles to keep his head above it is every bit as dramatic as the rescue attempts that were being made in Thailand and eerily familiar.
they drowned or ran out of air.
By a biza rrec oincidence, one of the themes in “Dead if You Don’t” — the latest Roy Grace thriller by Peter James — involves a kidnap victim who is being h eldin a subterranean prison at the edge of the English Channel. The police are searching for the youth named Mungo. Little do they know, h e’sc hained up and as the tide rises, he will surely drown if they do not locate him in time.
Sometim es a writer gets luck y.The thrilling tension that Peter James builds as the water slowly rises and Mungo struggles to keep his head above it is every bit as dramatic as the rescue attempts that were being made in Thailand and eerily familiar.
“Dead if You Don’t” is the 14th book in this series which features a police officer in the seaside city of Brighton, England. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is taking some time off as the book opens. He has taken his son Bruno to watch a soccer match at the sparkling new stadium.
Another father/son duo has arrived for the game. K ippBrownisa well-known investment broker. As he appears with his son Mungo, he quickly loses sight of the boy. When he gets to his firm’s luxury su itehe expects Mungo to show up there. But he doesn’t.
Mungo had been abducted by Albanian criminals who proceed to chain him up in that watery tomb I described earlier while t heysubmit ransom demands to his distraught father. Everybody assu mesKipp Brown is rich. He isn’t. Hi s compulsive gambling habit has him teetering on the edge of ruin.
“Dead if You Don’t” by Peter James is one barn burner of a book. Vick Mickunas of Yellow Springs interviews authors every Saturday at 7 a.m. and on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. on WYSO-FM (91.3). For more information, visit www. wyso.org/programs/booknook. Contact him at vick@ vickmickunas.com.