Traveller
By (Author) Ron McLarty
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st February 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
288
Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 19mm
232g
Jono Riley is an aging bartender and part-time actor struggling to make ends meet in Manhattan. But news of the sudden death of his childhood friend and first true love, Marie D Agostino, compels Jono to return home for her funeral. As he journeys to Rhode Island, Jono revisits his shadowy past - his three best friends and a series of mysterious shootings that occurred all that time ago.
Once home, Jono finds himself drawn into an attempt to find the person responsible for the shootings. Slowly he discovers his childhood friends are not who he thought they were...'Frequent flashbacks add colour to Jono's adult insecurities, and McLarty's prose remains convincing without crossing into treacly turf' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For THE MEMORY OF RUNNING: 'Vastly enjoyable, the story of this epic road trip is leavened by a strong vein of black humour' DAILY MAIL 'It is simply a good story well written' THE TIMES ** 'Endearing' Guardian
Ron McLarty is a successful actor and audio book narrator. He lives in the USA and this is his second novel.