It’s hard to describe A Wasting Time by William Esmont. Junkie Angus Mundy is trapped in
a no-way-out existence, working like a slave, for slave wages, he barely makes
enough to feed his drug habit, and certainly not enough to pay the debt he owes
to a bookie-loan shark. When the loan shark offers him a way out; assassinate
the Chinese manager of the robot-dominated mine in which he works, and the debt
is cancelled, Angus sets out on a path that must lead to his doom. But, will he
take Hillary down with him?
I won’t spoil the ending by telling you whether he
does or not; you have to read this tense, tightly written thriller for
yourself. Esmont has a way of ratcheting up the tension until your nerves a
strumming like a well-tuned Strad, and then easing you down, only to jack you
back up again.
If you like stories with twists, tantalizing bits of
erotica – never fully described, but hinted at in such a way, the mind does the
rest – this is a must-read book.
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