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| DEBUT Noland Twice has been a football player, a cop, and a convict. Now he's a private investigator who often makes bad decisions. His latest one is agreeing to look into a case for defense attorney Faith Carlton, despite his gut feeling that he'll have to make some illegal moves as he investigates. Carlton's client is a construction firm, one of whose partners is on trial for embezzlement, and another, named Valkenburg, has disappeared with millions. The court has given Carlton 14 days to find Valkenburg and the money. Twice suspects that the construction firm's other partners are crooked too and trying to get their hands on the money, but they're scared of their partner in Brazil. When Twice tracks Valkenburg to his apartment, he finds a body, but it's not Valkenburg's. Desperate to keep on his timeline, Twice contacts a Russian friend to help him hide the body. Someone is always one step ahead of Twice as he clashes with law enforcement, embezzlers, gangsters, and killers. But he has one ace up his sleeve: his father, a cop now in prison, and his well-placed friends. VERDICT Fans of antiheroes and flawed characters will enjoy this action-packed, nonstop adventure.--Lesa Holstine |
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| When Noland Twice, the protagonist of Clifton's accomplished PI thriller debut, was 19, he was a star safety with the University of Florida's football team. After college, he excelled as a cop, and at one point boasted the best arrest record in Florida. Then a vengeful meth dealer framed Twice for drug possession. He swiftly lost his job and wound up spending two years in prison. Following his exoneration, Twice reinvented himself as a Central Florida gumshoe. Now, attorney Faith Carlton has retained him to trace Arthur Valkenberg, a partner in a massive Florida construction firm and suspected embezzler who's gone missing. Carlton hopes that tracking down Valkenberg might help exonerate her client, Frank Bisby, a partner at the firm who's been charged with fraud. Shortly after Twice starts investigating, he stumbles on a corpse in Valkenburg's apartment, transforming the missing persons case into something much more complex. Twice is a rough-but-lovable lead, neither too squeaky-clean nor too nasty to root for, and Clifton takes the central mystery in surprising and satisfying directions. Fans of Michael Kortya's Lincoln Perry series will be eager to spend more time with this memorable sleuth. Agent: Cindy Bullard, Birch Literary. (Mar.) |
