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A Fatal Drug (Simon Jardine Investigates Book 2) Kindle Edition

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

England. 1971.

Reporter Simon Jardine is on the hunt for the story that will kick start his career and when a tortured, mutilated body turns up on his patch he can’t help thinking his luck is finally in.

At first glance the provincial town of Derby is about as far away from the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll of London and California as it’s possible to imagine but as Jardine begins to scratch below the surface he finds that all is not well in England’s green and pleasant land.

Along with fellow reporter Dave Green and local DJ Tom Freeman, Jardine is soon drawn into a spiral of gangland drug dealing and violence that stretches from the north of England to the south of Spain.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HH82DPW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fahrenheit Press (22 Jun. 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 961 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 372 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1539364291
  • Customer reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2018
    I read this some time ago and really enjoyed it. The setting was excellent both in and out of the newsroom. The exploration of the 1970's was very entertaining! I grew up in Nottingham so I have an affiliation with Derby, which was part of my enjoyment of the read. Tony is a fine writer and I'm looking forward to reading Vinyl Junkie, which is now on my kindle.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2016
    Absolutely loved it! Great setting and detail with realistic, rounded characters; I almost felt I was 'there'.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2017
    This is the second novel from Tony Cox and a much better more detailed more thriller of a follow up and for 3/4 of the book I was really on edge could not see where it was going to end...alas like many books the ending seemed to be rushed and I found I have to re-read several pages to see if I had not missed something.....recommended all the same......
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2016
    This novel is a rare insight into the drug dealing, brothels & organised crime of 1970's Derby.
    The novel is fast paced, constantly moving around the various characters. The locations are 100% spot on! having lived in the city myself (although not in the 1970's) the areas mentioned are the areas associated with crime.
    The characters are diverse which offers an accurate portrayal of Derby City itself.

    Would definitely recommend! 5*
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2022
    A rather rushed and in places confusing work. Derby man myself, but didn't recognise the place as the heaving hotbed of crime which Tony describes!
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2018
    Another great read from the pen of Mr Cox. Booze,drugs and murder along with prostitution and brothels. All that and great memories of the 70’s.
    Already reading the next book Vinyl Junkie.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2018
    The author had moved from the Derby Evening Telegraph by the time I started work there in the late-1970s but his novel, set earlier in that decade, unquestionably captures some of the mood, morals, trends and problems of the time. It certainly accurately reflects much of the daily lifestyle of evening newspaper hard-news reporters (perhaps their sexual encounters seem rather more prevalent than I recall, though this may be more of a comment on me). The importance of good-quality beer to the average scribe of the day is undoubtedly not overstated. Nor is the free rein which many enjoyed away from close newsdesk scrutiny. Lots of people, the young and not-so-young, were undoubtedly unaware of the easy availability of hard and soft drugs at that time - those that were aware of it were often seeking to profit it from it, sometimes violently, or were in danger of having their lives wrecked by it. This fast-moving novel captures that menace and the low life which crawled around it.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2017
    This is a fun, twisty 70s-set tale of dodgy dealings in Derby and Spain with an interesting bunch of characters. The newsroom setting is so brilliantly described. I loved how Cox perfectly describes the smell of a newspaper office when the presses are rolling - takes me right back to visiting my dad's paper!

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