![]() ![]() “Kim Secretan had unquestionably been special. In the first installment, Slippery Creatures, they met and bonded over a case involving secret agencies and criminal conspiracies - until, that is, Kim’s penchant for secrecy and lies and using Will as a tool to achieve his goals almost ruined it all. ![]() Will kept a bottle of cheap Scotch on the mantelpiece.” “Kim was an amateur mixologist with a well-stocked cocktail cabinet in his mansion flat. Here’s the snapshot of their differences, courtesy of alcohol: Will is as tough as a rope Kim is strung like a taut wire. Will had to admit he wasn’t feeling optimistic.”This is the second chapter in the story of unlikely “strange bedfellows” (double entendre crudely meant) in the 1920s Jazz Age London - Will Darling (a former soldier turned antiquarian bookseller, good with a knife and his fists) and Kim Secretan (a secretive disgraced aristocrat, former revolutionary, current secret agent, good with cunning lies and full of smarts and guilt and double-speak). “Unarmed, one-handed, outnumbered, and facing a professional killer. And this was a fun, suspenseful and yet cozy read. ![]()
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