Brick

By: Conrad Jones

Narrated by: Diana Croft

A standalone novel.

When a teenager is the victim of an unprovoked attack while walking his dog, a murder investigation begins. A cruel twist of fate makes his innocent family the targets of a vicious campaign of terror. As the detectives of Liverpool's Major Investigation Team try to contain the violence, several key members of an organized crime family begin to topple, causing shockwaves across the planet.

©2015 Conrad Jones (P)2017 Conrad Jones

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This is a hard hitting, dark, violent story that is definitely not for the faint hearted. Beautifully written, you are carried into the disturbing underworld of the criminal classes. Bryn and his family are the only bright stars in a black night and I was genuinely frightened for them. The tale twists and turns like a fast running river, eventually gushing out into the sea and freedom. A remarkable story from Conrad Jones, ably narrated by Diana Croft

Un put a down-able

I love this style of book, its very hard hitting and to the point, no over the top padding or fluffy around, your attention is grabbed right from the start and then your taken on a readers journey through a war zone and come out the other end feeling like you just had a lucky escape, and the British writers are so good at it.

Great Story about a boy who is a nice kid out walking his dog and ends up in bad trouble, You get to really dislike the villains in this book which there are lots of.
The narrator does a excellent job especially as there are so many accents.
I was hooked from the moment I started reading this book and it was one my quickest reads in a long time as i couldn't put it down.
Throughly recommend this as a action packed thriller.

Gang warfare and violence.

I volunteered to listen to the audio version of this book, expecting a thriller, but not expecting the level of violence that it contains. In fairness to the author, the violence was up-front and in-your-face right from the beginning and under all normal circumstances I would have closed the book there and then. However, I tend to complete audiobooks more often than the written word, so I persevered.

An unfortunate teenage boy from a peaceful, if poor family, becomes embroiled in a gang situation where life is cheap and revenge is all. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and mouthed off a bit too much. As a result, he and his family become targets of a ruthless mob and find themselves fleeing for their lives.
My friends read 'body-count' books and we joke about the number of bodies eliminated by the author during the course of the book - well, I have to say I lost count with Brick, there certainly weren't many left to bring to justice by the end.

If you're looking for dark and brooding with an ominous presence, then this may be for you; if it's a frantic page-turner you're after, then, no, I didn't find that with this book, it didn't grab me and I'm sorry to say, even the ending was a bit flat.
Notable comment for the narrator, Diana Croft, who nailed the Northern accents.