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Relative Danger by Charles Benoit

Relative Danger

by Charles Benoit
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  • Feb 1, 2004, 340 pages
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  • Feb 2006, 264 pages
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'A smashingly good, action-packed first novel'

This debut novel is heavy on the fun and light on the suspense.  Our young hero, Doug, is a brewery worker from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, until, at short notice, he finds himself sacked from his dead-end job and on the trail of a fabulous diamond, stolen by his long-dead uncle  - the bad sheep of the family - who was murdered many years earlier.

This review first ran in the June 1, 2005 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.

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