#Review By Lou of This Is Not A Pipe By David Jarvis @David_Jarvis_ #ThisIsNotAPipe – A Mike Kingdom Story #CrimeFiction #Thriller

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This Is Not A Pipe
By David Jarvis

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Is this a pipe or what? This Is Not A Pipe… so come and discover more in the blurb and then my review of the second Mike Kingdom story. Book 1 is, The Tip Of The Iceberg. Thanks to David Jarvis for the book, in-exchange of a free, honest review.

This Is Not A Pipe

Blurb

How would you go about finding a relative if they had gone missing abroad?

For Michaela ‘Mike’ Kingdom, this should have been all in a day’s work. After all, she had previously been a search analyst for the CIA in London. Unfortunately, she didn’t know which name her brother-in-law was using, what he was doing or even in which country he was working. His phone had been used in Málaga three weeks previously and then gone dead. Her initial investigations were off to a slow start until the killing of a British government minister in France on his way to Spain gave her that vital first clue. That’s all Mike Kingdom needed – until she befriended a fish gutter’s dog, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

This Is Not a Pipe – like its predecessor, The Tip of the Iceberg – is a thought-provoking and gripping story that follows Mike Kingdom as she ventures into the field for a second time.

Review

Michaela “Mike” Kingdom gets a visit from her former boss, head of the CIA, London branch, not a particularly welcome one, but it turns out to be important. What ensues is deftly plotted and fast-paced to try and discover what has happened to her relative, who is deemed missing.
There’s also a significant murder, that moves the investigation onwards.

It’s a tense and tightly written book of geo-politics, current topics such as G20 summits and gas pipelines, with also a mystery to also be solved.
It also takes on quite the adventure, where there are some rather interesting supporting characters to also meet.
It also, surprisingly, does have some humour that lifts it quite nicely. When there is humour, it feels quite natural and fits well.
The intricate plot, with great settings is gripping enough to make you want to keep reading to the very end to discover what happens, and how it all ends.

I will also add my congratulations in that David Jarvis has now joined many authors who publish with Hobeck Books, a great indy crime book publisher.

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