Hangman - Timothy Blake Book 1 (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 54 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
A mesmerising dissection of the criminal mind and a bulletproof thriller.
A 14-year-old boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads.
Enter Timothy Blake, codename Hangman. Blake is a genius, known for solving impossible cases. He's also a psychopath with a dark secret, and the FBI's last resort.
But this time Blake might have met his match. The kidnapper is more cunning and ruthless than anyone he's faced before. And Blake has been assigned a new partner, a woman linked to the past he's so desperate to forget.
Timothy Blake has a secret, one so dark he will do anything to keep it hidden.
And he also has a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one …
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Timothy Blake is the complex, compelling and occasionally repulsive antihero of Jack Heath’s crime thriller. The FBI consultant is blessed with keen observation and puzzle-solving skills, but also with disturbing, dark urges that draw him closer to the criminals he hunts. Christopher Ragland’s dramatic narration brings Timothy to life and provides a clear voice for each of the book’s characters. Ragland also maintains a perfect pace, making Heath’s part-Sherlock, part-Hannibal story suspenseful and thought-provoking.
Customer Reviews
Kept me guessing
Such a good thriller, it was like a film being played in my mind. The reader was brilliant.
Hard to swallow
Melburnian Mr Heath was Australia’s 4th highest selling fiction writer last year, which came as a surprise to me considering I had not heard of him before.
He has worked at various times as a fry cook, music teacher, TV salesman, call centre worker, street magician and bookseller, while churning out 20 novels across the crime, young adult, and sci-fi genres.
Hangman is the first of a series involving Timothy Blake, now early 30s, whose formative experience in foster homes in Texas was less than ideal to put it mildly.
High school dropout living a hand to mouth existence he may be, but he has a gift for solving cases of child abduction, which is why he is retained as a civilian contractor by the local FBI.
He’s not on the payroll though. They pay him with the bodies of executed death row prisoners, which he eats after an exchange of falsified paperwork!
In other words, he’s your basic trailer park Hannibal Lechter, who also seems to possess the physical strength and endurance of a Navy SEAL.
His black female FBI minder is more Dora the Explorer than Clarice Starling, although I wouldn't say so to her face.
Mr Heath's prose is slick, his pace cracking.
I’m as willing as the next man (or woman, or rather not say) to suspend belief in the interests of a good yarn, but... seriously?
I do not believe the world of genre fiction needs another cannibal savant.