Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman looking for his runaway teenage daughter, Meena, he should, perhaps, have known better. He finds himself in a race against time to save he girl from the kind of trouble that gives families a bad name. Trying to do the right thing, Nick swaps sides and ends up starring in his own version of a Straw Dogs shoot out with family and friends, where nobody comes out the winner.
Category: Crime & mystery
RRP: £14.99
ISBN: 9781901982671
Published: October 21, 1999
Extent: 188 pages
RRP: £5.99
ISBN: 9781901982862
Published: May 25, 2000
Extent: 224 pages
RRP: £3.99
ISBN: 9781843448044
Published: April 20, 2016
‘a climax worthy of the Wild Bunch’
Mike Ripley , The Telegraph
Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman looking for his runaway teenage daughter, Meena, he should, perhaps, have known better. He finds himself in a race against time to save he girl from the kind of trouble that gives families a bad name. Trying to do the right thing, Nick swaps sides and ends up starring in his own version of a Straw Dogs shoot out with family and friends, where nobody comes out the winner.
"Quick Before They Catch Us" was written by Mark Timlin.
In over twenty years as an author, Mark Timlin has written some thirty novels under many different names, including best selling books as Lee Martin, innumerable short stories, an anthology and numerous articles on diverse subjects for various newspapers and magazines.
Yes, "Quick Before They Catch Us" is part of the "A Nick Sharman Novel" series. It's book 16 in the series.