When Dan Khan buys a unique piece of cultural history for £50 from a man in the pub, he thinks all his troubles are over.
He is told it’s the actual typewriter William Shakespeare used when he wrote all his plays.
Dan and his girlfriend Shannon reckon it must be worth millions!
But they don’t realise the vintage machine was stolen from the city’s most notorious crime boss.
And he will stop at nothing to get back the sinister secret it contains…
My thoughts: I do worry about the state of the education system when someone genuinely believes Shakespeare used a typewriter. But that’s why Dan Khan bought one off a dodgy bloke in the pub for £50 and gets himself and girlfriend Shannon embroiled in utter chaos as a result.
There’s some wonderful black humour running through this book as two people with no idea what they’re doing go on the run with a furious criminal and his goons on their heels.
Thankfully they’re being followed by a police detective with a brain, and protected (sort of) by a computer genius who doesn’t want anyone else to get hurt. Between them everything might just get sorted out, although there’s a kidnapping and being held hostage to get through first!
Funny, clever and highly enjoyable. Wouldn’t mind seeing this become a series, with Em reluctantly helping the police with her hacker skills.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
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