The Button Man

Hugo Marston, Book 4

De: Mark Pryor

Narrado por: Todd McLaren

In this prequel to The Bookseller, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He's asked to protect a famous movie-star couple, Dayton Harper and Ginny Ferro, who, while filming a movie in rural England, killed a local man in a hit-and-run. The task turns from routine to disastrous almost immediately. Before Hugo even meets them, he finds out that Ferro has disappeared, and her body has been found hanging from an oak tree in a London cemetery. Hours later a distraught Harper gives Hugo the slip, and Hugo has no idea where he's run off to. Taking cues from a secretive young lady named Merlyn, and with a member of Parliament along for the chase, Hugo's search leads to a quaint English village. There, instead of finding Harper, more bodies turn up. Teaming with local detectives and then venturing dangerously out on his own, Hugo struggles to find connections between the victims. Is this the work of a serial killer - or something else entirely? Knowing he's being tailed, the killer prepares for the final, public act of his murderous plan, and Hugo arrives just in time to play his part....

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Consistent.

In general, I love Pryor’s stories and have read everything he has written. I alternate reading them with more difficult tomes for some R&R in my reading and total fun and abandonment to less scholarly reading and concentration on the perplexing mystery of who is the bad guy and what is the motivation.

While I agree with one of the other reviewers that this is not his best work, it is still fun and great entertainment . I wish he would write a million more in the same genre. Hats off to you, Mr. Pryor.

Button man

Loved the story and everything about Hugo ! Love the story line and like the audible books

Well below the quality of earlier work

The premise for the story was a good one, the pros and cons of capital punishment .
This Hugo Marston story however was disjointed, not credible, and well below the high standard that Mark Pryor had set with his earlier books, most notably the Bookseller. Very disappointed!