Black Rose : A Midsummer Night’s Chutzpah by Pete Adams

 

Survival.

The instinct that defacto guides us every step of the day and way.

What lengths would you go to survive? What all would you be willing to do?

Black Rose: A Midsummer Night’s Chutzpah by Pete Adams set in the 1960’s is a story of gangsters and IRA bombings on one front but on a deeper level is about a little boy trying to survive, trying to feel safe.

“He didn’t ask for much, just to be safe. It was how he survived.”

Chaz Larkin, born to one of two rival gangs in East End, London, is a teenager who is beaten to the point of blindness by bullies at school, his mother and the gang members of both factions-Larkins and the Saints.

Hospitalized and close to death, Chaz finds himself at a crossroads, a death target painted on his head by the rival gang and unwanted by his own gang.

It is here that the mysterious DCI Casey enters and then the twists just keep coming.

Along with Mayhem.

DCI Casey seems to bring that about at every turn he takes.

Adams has managed to make this book poignant and yet hilariously funny.

A thriller page turner it is jam-packed (pun intended) with Crumpets, superstitions, rival gangs, the start of the IRA bombings in England, corruption and cockney accents that will make ‘my fair lady’ coherent.

Does Chas survive the litany of assaults he faces?

Will the mythical Valkyrie ‘Black Rose’ appear and help him?

Will he use his own chutzpah to get revenge?

Or will he just turn larkin barkin mad?

Black Rose is Historical Fiction with a twist. One that you don’t see coming.

 

So glad I got this RC it was a thrill to read. Hope you liked my fair and honest review.

Happy Reading☺