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Drummond Clark is a retired appliance salesman who is now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. His son Charlie is plays the horses and has just lost a huge amount on a “sure-thing” winner who came in second. He now owes his bookie a fortune, which he doesn’t have. Charlie is contacted by Drummond’s Social Worker, when Drummond is declared unfit to take care of himself. As Charlie starts to make plans to place Drummond in an appropriate mental health care facility as well as stay out of reach of h
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A pretty good spy yarn with a very interesting premise but I found all the action scenes wearying and thought it was a bit too long. Listened to the audio version which was very well narrated by Danny Campbell.
Halfway through and I'm throwing in the towel. This is sophomoric beyond description. The easy frontrunner for my "worst novel I read in 2020" award.
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