The Tenth Car

An Omus Jones Novel

De: Julien St. James

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Some things are too beautiful to question. That's exactly the problem.

When hedge-fund manager Marcus Hartley unseals a carriage house on his crumbling Cornish estate, he finds something impossible under seventy years of dust: a car the world believed was lost forever — the most beautiful machine ever built, and worth a fortune to the man who can prove what it is.

The experts are called. The papers are signed. Eighteen million pounds changes hands.

And then the questions start.

Omus Jones is sixty-one, freshly and unwillingly retired, running a one-room agency above a Bristol chip shop and losing an argument with his coffee machine. He drives a bright orange three-wheeler, eats anchovies straight from the tin, and authenticates people the way other men authenticate cars — by paying attention to what they'd rather he didn't.

Hired to find out whether Hartley is a victim or something worse, Omus follows the trail from a Chelsea townhouse to a Mayfair vault to a flat in Paris — into a rarefied world where a handful of people decide what's real, and a great deal depends on nobody asking how they know.

Because the most dangerous thing in the world isn't a lie. It's a man who needs something to be true.

The Tenth Car is a quietly devastating mystery about craftsmanship, obsession, and the price of belief — and the first case for an investigator you'll want to follow home.