Christian Thompson / That Which Doesn't Kill You (Hardback)

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 Introducing Chris O'Brien, Private Investigator.

Bradford's answer to Philip Marlowe is not your run-of-the-mill private dick - an ex-psychiatric nurse trained in Chinese medicine, O.B. is a martial arts expert with a Philosophy degree and a mean way with a kitchen cleaver.

Tim Marconi, the manager of popular Club Zed in Bradford, has reason to believe that drugs are being dealt in his club, and that's made him mad. And that's not a good situation for anyone involved. Fledgling private eye Chris O'Brien and his sidekick, the enthusiastic West Indian, Kelp start sniffing around for clues, confident that it shouldn't be too hard to flush out the culprits. But then the stakes are raised when a dead body turns up outside the club and the police swoop in.

Within days, arson and a near-fatal attack land Kelp in hospital with broken bones and a maliciously induced heroin overdose. Driven by a mixture of guilt and fury, O.B. takes off towards Dorset on the trail of the mysterious Greg D'Ancona, a name that keeps cropping up. Help is at hand in the form of Kelp's sister, the beautiful, independent and enigmatic Debra, out to avenge her brother's attempted murder. In the face of some daunting opposition, together they track their enemies to a thrilling, violent and dirty confrontation that will require all their skill and cunning just to stay alive.

That Which Doesn't Kill You is an action-packed, witty and sharply observed debut that marks the first appearance of Bradford's wise-cracking kung-fu PI, Chris O'Brien.

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