Barry Faulkner – Turkish Delight

I have read most of Barry Faulkners books and love his work. Turkish Delight is the first book of a brand new series with Ben Nevis and Alison Gold (AKA the golddigger) as the main characters. I was dying to get stuck into the story and could hardly wait when it dropped through my letterbox.

London private eye Ben Nevis, ex SAS/OCS/N14 gets a peculiar request from a new lady client, ‘kill my husband’. A few days later the husband appears in Ben’s London office with the request ‘kill my wife’. Ben has his partner the Gold Digger take a good look into the pair and some illegal international arms dealing is exposed with missiles going from the UK through Cyprus and Turkey to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and on to terrorist cells in the Middle East.

After a surprise visit from Ben’s old boss at MI6 Ben finds himself enrolled in a mission to stop the trade with help of the British SBS based in Cyprus who are to get him into Turkey to blow up the arms and then get him out again. But things don’t go to plan.

It is a full action novel set in the present day with twists and turns bringing it to the final explosive conclusion.

Ben Nevis is ex-SAS & the Met’s Organised Crime Squad, now a Private Investigator ; the Goldigger is ex-Mossad and now uses her skills wisely. They are a duo who, together, can find a way round anything, be it above the law or not. A married couple each contact them both with a request to kill each other. With one million from each of them as the fee, Ben Nevis is in a quandary and then just to mix it up some more…the MI6 arrive.

Turkish Delight takes the reader around the world almost, to Cyprus and Turkey and other countries too, and I loved it. It was such a thrilling and action-packed read with tons of different things going on, so you are doing to know what’s next.

Well, I love the Palmer series, and Turkish Delight is another brilliant piece of fiction. Barry Faulkner always brings characters that you warm to straight away. Nevis and the Golddigger are truly different from any other character of Barry’s, and I embarked on this new journey rooting for them. We see them investigating international arms dealing, which does lead to some interesting twists and turns in this story.

A story told mainly from the main character’s point of view, which gives the reader a birds eye view of it all. This resulted in me feeling like I was experiencing what Nevis and Golddigger are too. By the time I had read the last page I felt like I had been racing around with them, too. Although the storyline is rather serious but the humour and wit is still apparent and provides a lighter relief to the seriousness of the story.

The author’s style of short chapters and writing that hits home makes this a book that you find yourself saying just one more constantly. A Barry Faulker book is well worth picking up; you never know… you may find a new author to stalk!

Massive thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the fabulous Barry Faulkner for my gifted cop of the book.

Author Bio

Faulkner was born into a family of petty criminals in Herne Hill, South London, his father, uncle and elder brothers running with the notorious Richardson gang in the 60s-80s, and at this point we must point out that he did not follow in that family tradition although the characters he met and their escapades he witnessed have added a certain authenticity to his books. He attended the first ever comprehensive school in the UK, William Penn in Peckham and East Dulwich, where he attained no academic qualifications other than GCE ‘O’ level in Art and English and a Prefect’s badge (though some say he stole all three!)
His mother was a fashion model and had great theatrical aspirations for young Faulkner and pushed him into auditioning for the Morley Academy of Dramatic Art at the Elephant and Castle, where he was accepted but only lasted three months before being asked to leave as no visible talent had surfaced. Mind you, during his time at the Academy he was called to audition for the National Youth Theatre by Trevor Nunn – fifty years later, he’s still waiting for the call back!
His early writing career was as a copywriter with the major US advertising agency Erwin Wasey Ruthrauff & Ryan in Paddington during which time he got lucky with some light entertainment scripts sent to the BBC and Independent Television and became a script editor and writer on a freelance basis. He worked on most of the LE shows of the 1980-90s and as personal writer to Bob Monkhouse, Tom O’Connor and others. During that period, while living out of a suitcase in UK hotels for a lot of the time, he filled many notebooks with DCS Palmer case plots and in 2016 he finally found time to start putting them in order and into book form. Eight are finished and published so far, with number 9 at the editors.
Faulkner is a popular speaker and often to be found on Crime Panels at Literary Festivals which he embraces and supports wholeheartedly.
He has recently been seen on screen in the Channel 5 Narcos UK series, Episode 2 The London Gangs and his Palmer book ‘I’m With The Band’ has just been serialised in 16 parts by BBC Radio Bristol. He has been a subject of Corinium Radio’s Writer’s Room programme, Manchester FM’s Hannah Kate Book show, Hawkesbury Upton Lit. Festival ‘Best of British’ panel chairman, Evesham Festival of Words Crime Panel and Bristol Crime Fest Indie Author Panel amongst others
Faulkner is a member of ALLI (Alliance of Independent Authors) and publishes a blog about the ‘geezers’ of his youth, the criminals and their heists. It goes in depth about the Krays, Brinks Mat, Hatton Garden ‘Nipper’ Read and all the other major heists and who ‘dun ‘em’. Take a look at geezers2016.wordpress.com
He also speaks about that era in illustrated talks for social clubs, WI and others.
As a crime writer Faulkner is quite particular about ‘getting it right’ and as well as his own Facebook page he publishes a page called ‘UK Crime Readers and Writers Page’ which has lots of information about the forensic crime detection methods, police procedurals and other facts of use to both reader and writer of crime and detective books.
Faulkner now lives in the glorious Forest of Dean with his wife and three dogs.

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