The Unfolding Path

It is only when our unsuspecting hero falls victim to a pernicious act of revenge that Jack Daly realises just how many enemies he has. The mercenary betrayal by work colleagues, the looming birth of his second child and a prophetic warning only serve to frustrate Jack and Italian wife Ludo as their holiday in Sorrento becomes a nightmare that all parents dread. A single, hateful, act of revenge threatens to wreck their marriage and take away their most prized gift, their 3-year-old son Giacomo.Just how many suspects can there be for such a detestable crime? Perhaps more than Jack and the team can handle.In this third Jack Daly mystery, the hesitant hero becomes immersed in the shadowy world of child abduction. As Editor of the specialist magazine Taken he is used to reporting on the disappearance of children to a voyeuristic public. So how will he cope when his day job becomes a dark reality?A man who has nothing to lose is a dangerous man. The only person to send against a man who has nothing to lose, is a man who has everything to lose. So who is to be sent on such a mission? Jack's lifelong friend and SAS officer Tonka Thompson who is facing a Court Martial hearing, or Ludo's artisan Mafia-linked brother Sebastiano? Or is our vacillate hero, the stoical but unremitting Jack, about to face his severest test alone?In spite of the subject matter, this taught thriller is still laced with the subtle observational humour which has become the distinguishing feature of previous Jack Daly adventures Lost in a hurricane and Deathbed Confessions.About the author: Peter Larner lives in Upminster and is a Company Director whose specialist subject is the Romantic poet John Keats. In his professional career Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and often speaks on the subject of road safety. But he draws on none of these experiences in the Jack Daly series of books. He describes himself as a story teller, rather than an author.One press review of Deathbed Confessions described the book as: 'Highly recommended', 'a cracker', and said it was 'begging to be adapted for TV'. Lost in a hurricane reached the top 100 in the Fiction/Humour section of the Amazon.co.uk Best Sellers list in October 2010.