The Face Man
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Torrance Grayson has forged a solid independent journalism career with help from his friend and mentor, Felix Salinger, and he's relished being the face of the Salinger crew, exposing the corruption of the powerful while keeping his friends safe in their anonymity. But being face to face with the worst in the world takes its toll, and when Tor has a moment of weakness, it's the Salingers who come to bail him out.
During his recovery, Tor makes friends with the household's confident, charismatic young chef, Marco. Their quiet conversations make Marco more and more reluctant to confront Tor on the grave mistake the man is about to make in his current exposé—a mistake that can harm Marco's loud, boisterous family irrecoverably.
Tor is more than willing to listen—and to correct any mistakes. He's seen graphic proof that he's not infallible, and he'll go to any lengths to avert tragedy. But as Tor works toward the truth of what's happening with Marco's family, Marco begins to develop deep suspicions about the people they both work for. Torrance Grayson is in deep with the Salingers, and Marco isn't sure he should know any more than necessary about people who seem to be great bosses but shady citizens.
In order to help Marco, Tor needs to trust him—and that means to trust him with the truth of the Salinger Crew, as well as with his heart. But in a world of capers and crimefighting, trust, it appears, is worth more than gold and jewels. Tor can expose crime and injustice with impunity, but can he expose his heart to Marco, a man who desperately wants in?
Customer Reviews
A delightful con with danger and romance.
This is another adventure concerning Danny, Felix and their family of con-artists with hearts of gold. This time they’re drawn in to the caper by Marco, the young chef who works for Danny, Felix and family. Marco and his cousin, Cammie, have realised that something is going on concerning the construction/refit company owned by Marco’s uncle, Cammie’s father, and he expresses his worries to Torrance, who realises that he’s about to do a story about this very company, exposing them as scam artists. It’s not long before “The family” get involved; it’s definitely within their purview, but it turns out to be something far bigger than they at first thought.
As usual, Amy Lane doesn’t spare any detail. There’s the planning of the operation, a look at some of the relationships the family have with each other, and the growing feelings that Marco has for Tor and vice versa. It’s another great adventure and answers the question; “what do you do that makes the world a better place?”, a question that Tor uses at one point in the story.
I always love Amy’s stories that have so much detail and so many lovely characters who love with all their hearts.
But. Here’s the thing that been bugging me. AL has Liam, with a London/Cockney accent, saying “aye” in two different ways. The thing is, aye is the spelling and word meaning yes, used by Scottish people and people from the north of England (think Liverpool, where the Beatles come from). And it’s pronounced, “eye”. Liam answers to a statement from Josh with aye, meaning yes. But a Londoner/Cockney would use the word, yeah or “ye”, (yes, but without the S).
In the second instance, Liam says aye at the end of a sentence. Again, this would not be Liam’s go-to word. He would say “eh” (pronounced “ay”, with a rising inflection). It’s almost like a question mark; almost like saying, Right?, as in, Am I right? So they are two different words, with two different spellings, with two different meanings. Aye (“eye” meaning yes) and “eh” (“ay” meaning, right?)
Sorry for being pedantic, but I really needed to clear that up. Hope you’re not too confused, but that’s the English language for you. (Or my bad explanation).
Nevertheless, 5 stars.