Bait

Nick Brownlee

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Ex-Scotland Yard cop Jake Moore’s career was cut short by a bullet; ten years later, he runs a game fishing business that is about to go broke. But old habits die hard, and when cerebral Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma—seemingly the only good policeman in a city where corruption is king—asks for his help in solving a baffling murder case, the two men find themselves drawn into a deadly conspiracy involving local hoodlums, murderous ex-pats, and a mysterious and psychopathic kingpin who presides over a sickening trade in innocent human life.

Set amid the five-star luxury and Third World squalor of Kenya’s east coast, Bait introduces a new and unique crime-busting double act, and sets Nick Brownlee apart as a hot new talent on the crime scene.

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  Day OneChapter OneAs a boy, George Malewe had gutted thousands of fish for the white men who came to catch game off the coast of Mombasa. But, as he plunged the blade of his favourite teak-handled filleting knife into the soft underbelly and eased it upwards through the stomach wall with a smooth, practised sawing movement, it struck him that he had never before gutted a white man.A man, George concluded, was not so different from a large karambesi or marlin. The guts spilled out on to the cockpit deck with the same moist splash.

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Nick Brownlee

NICK BROWNLEE is a former Fleet Street journalist who now runs his own freelance news service. He lives in Cumbria with his wife and daughter and is currently working on a sequel to Bait, titled Burn.

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Bait
Nick Brownlee

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books
July 2009
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312550219
ISBN10: 0312550219
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 336 pages
$25.99

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