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Title: The Fixer
Synopsis: When their daughter becomes entangled in
a dangerous diamond smuggling ring and corrupt Jamaican police refuse to help,
the Martin’s must employ a shady figure, above the law, to assist them in
saving her.
Blown off course by a devastating hurricane, a small diamond
smuggling plane lies wrecked, high up in the Jamaican Blue Mountains, hundreds
of miles short of its Miami destination. Desperate to recover their investment
before local authorities find the crash site, a team of smugglers sets out for
Jamaica, armed with the cryptographic keys needed to open the state-of-the-art
safes that lay aboard the stricken plane. In a bid to avoid suspicion at the
airport, the keys are inadvertently handed to a naïve young woman travelling
home to visit her parents. When Janet Martin agrees to give up her seat to
another traveller, she unknowingly leaves the airport with the smuggler’s
irreplaceable keys; she then loses the bag that contained them, in her haste,
the next morning. After months of frenzied searching, the smugglers trace and
kidnap Janet from a hotel in Jamaica. When her distraught parents turn to the
police for help, it becomes clear that the Special Investigative Crime unit has
been compromised and the Martin’s must turn to a force above the law; a
so-called “fixer” who may be their only hope.
The fixer is Kenneth Johnson, an unassuming resident of the
Cherry Gardens community, one of Jamaica’s most affluent neighbourhoods. He is
happily married to his university sweetheart and has three children. An
athletically built, six feet, two inches, he is referred to by fellow Jamaicans
as a mulatto, or ‘brown skin’. But beneath the veneer of this respectable family man lies a complex military history
which even his loved ones know little about. It’s a controversial history which
affords him the unique abilities required by the Martin’s frantic situation.
When Kenneth is approached by the distraught couple late at night with their
desperate proposition, he finds himself torn between saving their daughter and
rousing his own clandestine past.
The Fixer is the
explosive debut novel by Gary Hamilton, and introduces readers to a very
post-modern hero in Kenneth Johnson, an enigmatic force for good, shrouded by a
dark military history. But is Johnson as nefarious as the smugglers he’s
charged with recovering Janet Martin from, or is his past firmly behind him?
Set largely around Hamilton’s long time home of Jamaica, The Fixer is a
fast-paced thriller of police corruption, ruthless criminal gangs and rogue
justice meted out by the book’s antihero. An excellent debut that casts an
unflinching eye on Jamaica’s unique culture, The Fixer is a must-read for the
modern crime enthusiast.
About the author:
Gary Hamilton was born in Lambeth, South London to two young Jamaican
immigrants. His family moved back to Jamaica in 1973 where Hamilton attended
Vaz Preparatory School. During his school years he remembers gun-battles taking
place right outside the school gates. In spite of his early teacher’s remarks
that he would never be academically successful,
Hamilton secured a place at the University of the West Indies; he has
gone on to build a successful career in IT over the last twenty-seven years, initially repairing cash
registers and data terminals in supermarkets around Jamaica. Hamilton then
started his own business, quickly becoming one of the leading technology
distributors in the country, before spending fourteen years at a world-leading
IT company where he is now a renowned Cloud Architect. A keen reader, Hamilton has now fulfilled a
lifelong dream by writing his first book. Gary Hamilton now lives in
Buckinghamshire, England with his wife and daughters to whom the book is
dedicated. The Fixer (Published by Matador, RRP $15.95, eBook $6.40) is
available for purchase online at retailers including Amazon.com and can be
ordered at all good bookstores. For more information visit
www.garyrhamilton.com
For more information please contact:
Chris Sansom at Authoright / chris@authoright.com
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