Her Own Devices

by Dutton, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9781771838986
• ISBN10: 1771838981
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-09-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions

Summary

After witnessing a kidnapping in gritty Piraeus, Greece, a Swiss ex-pat and ex-activist with an energetic five-year-old son vows to put the culprit, his swaggering partner, and the cop protecting them, out of business, relying on home-brew surveillance devices and a loose coalition of allies. All the while, an ethereal narrator — the spirit of the boy's late father, denied entry to Paradise — worriedly surveils them. He seeks to unite them with his long-lost brother, but lacks agency. Barely surviving her flash mob’s climactic confrontation with the bad guys, our heroine learns that you never know who your friends are until you need them, and even then you still might not know… but that’s okay.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Dutton stretches his imagination by writing about topics he knows little about, types of people he’s never met, and places he’s never visited. He followed up his 2018 award-winning conspiracy thriller Turkey Shoot with Her Own Devices, literary crime fiction with magical elements, both set in Greece. Geoff resides west of Boston with his long-suffering spouse and two co-dependent pussycats.