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A Trio of Blues
A box set of my Jimmy Dalton series, all three books in one collection.
Dalton’s Blues
It was a night to end all nights.
The night Jimmy Dalton's life changed forever.
Will Jimmy walk away unscathed or will he sink to the depraved depths of those around him? What started as a night out with the boys, soon descends into a drug fuelled ride of madness and mayhem.
Homecoming Blues
Coming home from war can be hell.
All Jimmy Dalton wanted after fighting for his country was to escape his demons and live a quiet life. But a notorious gangster has other ideas and Jimmy finds himself in a war of a different kind. The daughter of Phil Duggan has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia and Dalton is coerced into rescuing her. What he finds out sees Dalton set on a path of revenge that may turn the streets of London red with blood, a path that may not only destroy those he cares about; but also his sanity and his very soul.
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Border Town Blues
Dalton's on the run with a gal, and a gun!
What begins as a search for missing D.E.A agents, turns into a race against time, through the Sonoran Desert. Jimmy Dalton & Jamie Duggan uncover a plot to unleash a terrible Biological weapon. Suicide bombers loaded with viral death are on their way to unleash hell, only Dalton & Jamie stand in their way.
Reviews
The ultraviolent tale reminded me of A Clockwork Orange where a group of young men casually engage in acts of extreme violence on a night out. It hurtles along and leaves the reader wanting to see where the story goes next. If you've got the stomach for it this short story certainly whets the appetite for further adventures of the character Jimmy Dalton. Enjoy. Warren Stalley reader review of Dalton’s Blues.
Dalton's Blues a Jimmy Dalton shortLooking for an action thriller akin to a runaway train full of flying bullets, bulging biceps and mayhem piled upon mayhem? You'll find it in this debut novella by British author Andrew Scorah, a name that could well become synonymous with the best the thrill genre has to offer.
There's rarely a let up in Scorah's `Homecoming Blues' as he takes his ex-Special Forces alter-ego, Jimmy Dalton, on a mission that starts as a rescue operation and ends in a revenge crusade. Along the way he crosses swords with some of London's resident gang leaders, takes on the Russian Mafia, and fends off bounty hunters determined to cash in on the hefty price placed on Dalton's head. Joe McCoubrey review of Homecoming Blues.
Dalton's Blues a Jimmy Dalton shortIf you ever wanted a pillow-thumping, sweat-generating read, then look no further than,'Border Town Blues.' Andrew Scorah's keyboard must have been on fire when he wrote this. With characters like 'Jimmy the Horse' at his local watering hole, to double dealing post-Escobar's Medellin Cartel, to villains with more top drawer connections than a string of popper beads...Jimmy Doyle (the main protagonist) and his cute sidekick, Jamie Lee, are in deep doo doo right from the off...Having been tricked into a seemingly impossible mission, with the only outcome certain death, Jimmy survives...Just...Or does he?...It has an authentic, well researched feel, and a dazzling dialogue, combined with a grease lightning pace. And with an opening set in the the Arizona desert, all I can say is, make sure the heating is off before reading. Rags Raggsy Daniels review of Border Town Blues.
Dalton’s Blues
It was a night to end all nights.
The night Jimmy Dalton's life changed forever.
Will Jimmy walk away unscathed or will he sink to the depraved depths of those around him? What started as a night out with the boys, soon descends into a drug fuelled ride of madness and mayhem.
Homecoming Blues
Coming home from war can be hell.
All Jimmy Dalton wanted after fighting for his country was to escape his demons and live a quiet life. But a notorious gangster has other ideas and Jimmy finds himself in a war of a different kind. The daughter of Phil Duggan has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia and Dalton is coerced into rescuing her. What he finds out sees Dalton set on a path of revenge that may turn the streets of London red with blood, a path that may not only destroy those he cares about; but also his sanity and his very soul.
.
Border Town Blues
Dalton's on the run with a gal, and a gun!
What begins as a search for missing D.E.A agents, turns into a race against time, through the Sonoran Desert. Jimmy Dalton & Jamie Duggan uncover a plot to unleash a terrible Biological weapon. Suicide bombers loaded with viral death are on their way to unleash hell, only Dalton & Jamie stand in their way.
Reviews
The ultraviolent tale reminded me of A Clockwork Orange where a group of young men casually engage in acts of extreme violence on a night out. It hurtles along and leaves the reader wanting to see where the story goes next. If you've got the stomach for it this short story certainly whets the appetite for further adventures of the character Jimmy Dalton. Enjoy. Warren Stalley reader review of Dalton’s Blues.
Dalton's Blues a Jimmy Dalton shortLooking for an action thriller akin to a runaway train full of flying bullets, bulging biceps and mayhem piled upon mayhem? You'll find it in this debut novella by British author Andrew Scorah, a name that could well become synonymous with the best the thrill genre has to offer.
There's rarely a let up in Scorah's `Homecoming Blues' as he takes his ex-Special Forces alter-ego, Jimmy Dalton, on a mission that starts as a rescue operation and ends in a revenge crusade. Along the way he crosses swords with some of London's resident gang leaders, takes on the Russian Mafia, and fends off bounty hunters determined to cash in on the hefty price placed on Dalton's head. Joe McCoubrey review of Homecoming Blues.
Dalton's Blues a Jimmy Dalton shortIf you ever wanted a pillow-thumping, sweat-generating read, then look no further than,'Border Town Blues.' Andrew Scorah's keyboard must have been on fire when he wrote this. With characters like 'Jimmy the Horse' at his local watering hole, to double dealing post-Escobar's Medellin Cartel, to villains with more top drawer connections than a string of popper beads...Jimmy Doyle (the main protagonist) and his cute sidekick, Jamie Lee, are in deep doo doo right from the off...Having been tricked into a seemingly impossible mission, with the only outcome certain death, Jimmy survives...Just...Or does he?...It has an authentic, well researched feel, and a dazzling dialogue, combined with a grease lightning pace. And with an opening set in the the Arizona desert, all I can say is, make sure the heating is off before reading. Rags Raggsy Daniels review of Border Town Blues.
241 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 7, 2014
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About the author
Andrew Scorah
20 books23 followersANDREW SCORAH
(1965-2018) Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire but moved to Swansea, Wales in 1999. His writing has appeared in Action Pulse Pounding Tales vols 1 & 2 alongside best selling thriller authors Matt Hilton, Stephen Leather, Adrian Magson, Zoe Sharpe and Joe McCoubrey. Having been raised on a diet of seventies and eighties Pulp Fiction, and no he does not mean the film, books like The Destroyer series, Mac Bolan, et al,He intended his work to reflect those humble beginnings of his literary journey. His books are not the long drawn out War and Peace length tomes, and Andrew makes no apologies for this. He writes pure escapist fiction for the general entertainment of the mass audiences. Books that will take you out of the mundane everydayness of your life into a world of pulse pounding action and adventure, just like the old Pulp stories from back in the day. Yes there is violence,sometimes extreme, yes there is bad language, and slang, but the worlds his characters inhabit, this can be the norm. Some people will love them, some will not, it is the way the world revolves, different strokes for different folks. All you need to do is sit back buckle up and enjoy the wild roller-coaster ride, then at the end you can get off and rejoin your life. Don't read too much into them, they're just for fun.
(1965-2018) Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire but moved to Swansea, Wales in 1999. His writing has appeared in Action Pulse Pounding Tales vols 1 & 2 alongside best selling thriller authors Matt Hilton, Stephen Leather, Adrian Magson, Zoe Sharpe and Joe McCoubrey. Having been raised on a diet of seventies and eighties Pulp Fiction, and no he does not mean the film, books like The Destroyer series, Mac Bolan, et al,He intended his work to reflect those humble beginnings of his literary journey. His books are not the long drawn out War and Peace length tomes, and Andrew makes no apologies for this. He writes pure escapist fiction for the general entertainment of the mass audiences. Books that will take you out of the mundane everydayness of your life into a world of pulse pounding action and adventure, just like the old Pulp stories from back in the day. Yes there is violence,sometimes extreme, yes there is bad language, and slang, but the worlds his characters inhabit, this can be the norm. Some people will love them, some will not, it is the way the world revolves, different strokes for different folks. All you need to do is sit back buckle up and enjoy the wild roller-coaster ride, then at the end you can get off and rejoin your life. Don't read too much into them, they're just for fun.
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September 19, 2014
As the writer suggests this is more a verbal comic than anything else. On that level it works fine. Three very short books full of sound and fury signifying not a lot. It is a bit pointless to delve deeply into use of language, grammar and so forth for this. Bit like complaining that comic bubbles have misspelled Oouf! as Oooph! but it would read even better with a shade more editing: a few more possessive apostrophes and relevant punctuation, for example. 'Screws bitch', 'brasses leg', maybe typos like,'Fainted' for 'feinted', 'sleight' when 'slight' is correct and 'passed' for 'past'. There is also the strange habit of occasionally capitalizing the first letter of some nouns: 'Taxi' and 'Oasis' among many, many others. Not that these detract much from the read since one is ducking and diving to avoid the flying claret.
My one serious complaint is that the main protagonist is schizoid in use of language. His speech is larded extensively with a lot of pseudo-cockney rabbit and yet it is interspersed with 'posh' words or phrases that don't really fit the yobbo. 'Reticence' and 'elevate our mood' for example. Indeed he seems to move up the cultural or social scale from Book 1 onward and the words probably fit better for the character later on.
The only other cavil is that to my mind Jimmy could never have been a member of the SAS, at least none of those I met during operation Sandy Wander in the '80s - he doesn't ring true.
Unfortunately I can't honestly give this five stars. Three seems fair for the colour and action.
My one serious complaint is that the main protagonist is schizoid in use of language. His speech is larded extensively with a lot of pseudo-cockney rabbit and yet it is interspersed with 'posh' words or phrases that don't really fit the yobbo. 'Reticence' and 'elevate our mood' for example. Indeed he seems to move up the cultural or social scale from Book 1 onward and the words probably fit better for the character later on.
The only other cavil is that to my mind Jimmy could never have been a member of the SAS, at least none of those I met during operation Sandy Wander in the '80s - he doesn't ring true.
Unfortunately I can't honestly give this five stars. Three seems fair for the colour and action.
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