BREAKING POINT is a perfect blend of humour and noir spiced
with a spliff sense of serendipity that is nothing short of entertaining from
start to finish.
Brian and his girlfriend Rachel are trying to live a normal
life. Well, as normal as can be seeing as Rachel killed Brian’s brother and
they’re both in hiding after Brian failed to take down hardman Owen in the books
predecessor THE POINT.
With a grudge and raw determination, Owen seeks to track
down Brian ‘ear for an ear like’ only with a view to exact a more permanent
form of gratification. Unbeknownst to Brian, who’s bonded with a local small
time drug dealer (who happens to be forming his own kind of martial arts, a
barstardisation of disciplines), the killer is on the verge of quenching his
thirst for vengeance when Tony’s dojo is busted up (along with Tony) by the
larger drug profiteers. Brian in a state of flux flees his new friend and ends
up in the arms of a madman.
BREAKING POINT is top notch storytelling by one of the best
in the business. Author Gerard Brennan continues to knock it out the park time
and time again (WEE ROCKETS, FIREPROOF etc.) and BREAKING POINT is no
different.
Short, sharp, funny, and balls to the wall exciting. This is
one novella that packs a punch many novels fail to land.
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