Synopsis/blurb….
Trouble keeps finding
Private Investigator Glenn Wozniak, even on his night off. When Glenn and a
drinking buddy attempt to bar hop for 24 hours straight, they find themselves
on a collision course with some drunken Cubs fans, a retired Mexican wrestler and
a pair of armed robbers.
Join Glenn for a few
rounds as he tries to make Chicago drinking history in the latest story in this
private eye series.
Another shortie to rack the numbers up.
Glenn Wozniak was recently encountered in Todd Luchik’s debut – Forgotten Boy. Here we catch up with our
PI having some down time on a 24 hour drinking marathon. Drinking appears to be
his favourite pastime.
Plenty of meat on the bones here. We get to visit a few
Chicago bars during the course of our marathon. We witness some bickering
between two companions on a night out, one of who obviously fails to appreciate
the gravity of the challenge and the overwhelming importance of the occasion.
Glenn’s accomplice Kyle is more acquaintance than friend and it shows.
Mexican wrestlers with dark secrets, a drunken brawl with
some sports fans and a crossing of paths with a pair of bandits who’ve been
violently taking down bars and emptying customer wallets.
Best story ever? No, but it worked well for me and there
wasn’t anything else I wanted to be doing once I started it. Sometimes that’s
enough.
Looking forward to more from Todd Luchik (and Glenn) in the future.
4 from 5
Todd Luchik has
his website here, where this story was provided to his news subscribers. It’s
also available from Amazon, where you get a 20-odd page sampling of Forgotten Boy.
Forgotten Boy was
read and reviewed back in October - here.
It sounds like a fun story, Col. And I've not often read a story set against the background of a night of going from bar to bar. Glad you liked it.
ReplyDeleteRight story, right time - though I have to say the thought of a 24 hour drinking marathon holds no personal appeal to me these days!
DeleteI’ll have to read this one. Chicago’s got plenty of great old bars, so this could be a whole series.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it Elgin.
DeleteSounds great!
ReplyDeletePaul, well worth a look in my opinion.
DeleteCol, I like novels set in Chicago. It is open to all kinds of plot settings including enterprise and cheap labour, and fashion and the mob, to tick a few.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great setting and I've enjoyed a few author's wrok which has been set in Chicago. Dan O'Shea (PENANCE and GREED) springs to mind.
DeleteWell I rally like the cover....
ReplyDeleteAnd to think I had you pegged as a potential 24 hour drinking companion!
DeleteBar hop for 24 hours straight ? I am too tame for this. The book Forgotten Boy sounds good and the setting of Chicago sounds well done. Maybe someday.
ReplyDeleteMy brother-in-law was going to attempt the same feat around London some years ago, I'm not sure if he ever tackled it. Me, I'd be done in after 4 drinks! Forgotten Boy might be worth a look when your embargo ends!
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