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A review by bookworm_brad
Ashes to Ashes by Paul Finch
4.0
Another thrilling installment in the life and times of Mark 'Heck' Heckenberg aka Superman aka the indestructible-one-man-crime-solver. Plenty of action, great dialogue and excellent narration by Paul Thornley, despite a couple of mispronunciations.
The thing that always amuses and frustrates me is Heck's mobile phone. Most of the time he ignores it especially when a superior is phoning, but when he does need to use it it's either broken, the battery is flat, there's no signal or he's left it in the car/house/office etc. On the few times he does use it he's invariably giving chase on foot, going full pelt after a criminal, but, being superhuman, manages to make a coherent call for back up (which of course rarely arrives in time) without breaking stride or needing to catch his breath.
The amount of phones he loses, breaks or throws at villians must cost him a fortune especially when it's clearly stated in this novel that he uses an iPhone, not exactly cheap. And how do people manage to phone him on a phone he's 'acquired' from a bad guy before he's been in touch with them to tell them the phone number of this new phone he's just taken?
Anyway, phones notwithstanding, this is an excellent if sometimes gruesome book and I look forward to the next one.
The thing that always amuses and frustrates me is Heck's mobile phone. Most of the time he ignores it especially when a superior is phoning, but when he does need to use it it's either broken, the battery is flat, there's no signal or he's left it in the car/house/office etc. On the few times he does use it he's invariably giving chase on foot, going full pelt after a criminal, but, being superhuman, manages to make a coherent call for back up (which of course rarely arrives in time) without breaking stride or needing to catch his breath.
The amount of phones he loses, breaks or throws at villians must cost him a fortune especially when it's clearly stated in this novel that he uses an iPhone, not exactly cheap. And how do people manage to phone him on a phone he's 'acquired' from a bad guy before he's been in touch with them to tell them the phone number of this new phone he's just taken?
Anyway, phones notwithstanding, this is an excellent if sometimes gruesome book and I look forward to the next one.