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By Jinx James
SCAM A-LAMA Payback
CON THE ROCK STAR Series – Book 3
Revenge, lust, betrayal, greed, the irresistible pull of stardom, and the Tax Man breathing down his neck. Rock star Marc Charles must deal with all this and more, just when he’s poised to relaunch his career.
Caught up in this mire is Ricky Singh. He wants to do the right thing to help Marc – but, as he discovers, it could be dangerous. Rock Star Marc Charles’ former music publisher, the arrogant and rapacious Rodney Farquhar Rappaport, had been secretly scamming Marc for years. Now that Marc has a new No.1 hit song, Rodney wants Marc back on his books again. But will Rodney’s treatment of a former employee be his undoing? Will Marc have the nerve to pull off the plot twist of a lifetime and make a killing?
As that master storyteller Alfred Hitchcock famously said, “Revenge is sweet, and not fattening.”
At the end, will Marc laugh all the way to the bank, or is this just a pipedream? Lust? Marc’s too busy promoting his new album. So, what’s Samira up to behind his back? Scam A-Lama Payback is the third book in this fast-paced serial thriller series. Will it be Payback for rock star Marc Charles in his continuing struggle to turn-the-tables on those plotting against him? How close is he to winning back to the stardom he once enjoyed? It’s a crazy ride all the way to the finishing line. Success is tantalisingly close. Hang in there with him and enjoy the laughs.
By Jinx James
SCAM A-LAMA Payback
CON THE ROCK STAR Series – Book 3
Revenge, lust, betrayal, greed, the irresistible pull of stardom, and the Tax Man breathing down his neck. Rock star Marc Charles must deal with all this and more, just when he’s poised to relaunch his career.
Caught up in this mire is Ricky Singh. He wants to do the right thing to help Marc – but, as he discovers, it could be dangerous. Rock Star Marc Charles’ former music publisher, the arrogant and rapacious Rodney Farquhar Rappaport, had been secretly scamming Marc for years. Now that Marc has a new No.1 hit song, Rodney wants Marc back on his books again. But will Rodney’s treatment of a former employee be his undoing? Will Marc have the nerve to pull off the plot twist of a lifetime and make a killing?
As that master storyteller Alfred Hitchcock famously said, “Revenge is sweet, and not fattening.”
At the end, will Marc laugh all the way to the bank, or is this just a pipedream? Lust? Marc’s too busy promoting his new album. So, what’s Samira up to behind his back? Scam A-Lama Payback is the third book in this fast-paced serial thriller series. Will it be Payback for rock star Marc Charles in his continuing struggle to turn-the-tables on those plotting against him? How close is he to winning back to the stardom he once enjoyed? It’s a crazy ride all the way to the finishing line. Success is tantalisingly close. Hang in there with him and enjoy the laughs.
Loud, funny and frenetic.
A Dark Comedy Crime Caper.
The music is Classic Rock and Soul.
The story is today.
By Jinx James
SCAM A-LAMA Payback
CON THE ROCK STAR Series – Book 3
Revenge, lust, betrayal, greed, the irresistible pull of stardom, and the Tax Man breathing down his neck. Rock star Marc Charles must deal with all this and more, just when he’s poised to relaunch his career.
Caught up in this mire is Ricky Singh. He wants to do the right thing to help Marc – but, as he discovers, it could be dangerous. Rock Star Marc Charles’ former music publisher, the arrogant and rapacious Rodney Farquhar Rappaport, had been secretly scamming Marc for years. Now that Marc has a new No.1 hit song, Rodney wants Marc back on his books again. But will Rodney’s treatment of a former employee be his undoing? Will Marc have the nerve to pull off the plot twist of a lifetime and make a killing?
As that master storyteller Alfred Hitchcock famously said, “Revenge is sweet, and not fattening.”
At the end, will Marc laugh all the way to the bank, or is this just a pipedream? Lust? Marc’s too busy promoting his new album. So, what’s Samira up to behind his back? Scam A-Lama Payback is the third book in this fast-paced serial thriller series. Will it be Payback for rock star Marc Charles in his continuing struggle to turn-the-tables on those plotting against him? How close is he to winning back to the stardom he once enjoyed? It’s a crazy ride all the way to the finishing line. Success is tantalisingly close. Hang in there with him and enjoy the laughs.
By Jinx James
SCAM A-LAMA Payback
CON THE ROCK STAR Series – Book 3
Revenge, lust, betrayal, greed, the irresistible pull of stardom, and the Tax Man breathing down his neck. Rock star Marc Charles must deal with all this and more, just when he’s poised to relaunch his career.
Caught up in this mire is Ricky Singh. He wants to do the right thing to help Marc – but, as he discovers, it could be dangerous. Rock Star Marc Charles’ former music publisher, the arrogant and rapacious Rodney Farquhar Rappaport, had been secretly scamming Marc for years. Now that Marc has a new No.1 hit song, Rodney wants Marc back on his books again. But will Rodney’s treatment of a former employee be his undoing? Will Marc have the nerve to pull off the plot twist of a lifetime and make a killing?
As that master storyteller Alfred Hitchcock famously said, “Revenge is sweet, and not fattening.”
At the end, will Marc laugh all the way to the bank, or is this just a pipedream? Lust? Marc’s too busy promoting his new album. So, what’s Samira up to behind his back? Scam A-Lama Payback is the third book in this fast-paced serial thriller series. Will it be Payback for rock star Marc Charles in his continuing struggle to turn-the-tables on those plotting against him? How close is he to winning back to the stardom he once enjoyed? It’s a crazy ride all the way to the finishing line. Success is tantalisingly close. Hang in there with him and enjoy the laughs.
Loud, funny and frenetic.
A Dark Comedy Crime Caper.
The music is Classic Rock and Soul.
The story is today.
When Trouble Finds You Collection
Different lives with one thing in common – a moment of crisis. Surprise, fear, anger, disgust, terror, despair, threat, meltdown, breakdown, misery, panic, bravery, resentment, remorse, revenge. A gripping collection of stories about moments of crisis, past and present, that change lives forever.
Read each compelling story in a single sitting
#1 Dead Reckoning
The phone call that threatens to destroy his world… four lives changed forever.
In this electrifying crime thriller involving a terrible moral dilemma and a shocking climax, who is really on the side of justice?
Gavin is proud to be a highly regarded law court judge, but in just one day his well-ordered life is demolished by a single phone call. A kidnapper is threatening to kill his daughter. He must act now, and act alone. Painfully, for the first time in his life Gavin realises that he’s prepared to break the law if he necessary. But can he save his daughter in time? Can a tragedy be prevented?
#2 Wrong Place
Right Time
It’s a tough life on the streets of Remmler for teenager Mik and his Greek-born mother, but he has a dream and he’s on his way to realising it. His luck changes the day he walks into a crime scene. He’s grabbed as a hostage, along with another passer-by, a young Mexican woman. He’s seen it a million times before, but when it happens to him it’s as scary as hell. In the ensuing police shoot out Mik wonders if he’ll come out of this alive.
In the end, there are three bodies. Will his be one of them?
# 3 The Legend
Keith has been in the protection business for years. He’s the man. Businesses all over the city rely on him and respect his efficient methods for dealing with trouble, so much so that Keith Morrison has earned the title, The Legend.
In recent times all he needs do to is make an appearance and the troublemakers vaporise, or pay-up – no guns, no effort. Still, he keeps up his trappings as the king of vigilante justice. That is, until the day he’s looking down the barrel of a gun and it’s pointing at him – and it’s in his own home! Is this the end of The Legend? Or can he outsmart the vicious young thug, and regain his hard-earned respect?
boxset: books 1-3
scam a-lama triple whammy
It takes an outrageous scam to re-ignite the passion of legendary Aussie Rock Star Marc Charles.
Until then, he has been just cruising, resting on his fading reputation. But now Marc’s hell-bent on beating the sleazy mafia-like scam and rebooting his career. But can he succeed?
It all starts with SCAM A-LAMA DING DONG, a hilarious dark satirical comedy that leaves readers hooting for more. But as always, other scammers are lurking in the background waiting to pounce, and sure enough a mysterious overseas organisation suddenly offers Marc a spectacular album deal in SCAM A-LAMA HARDBALL. Desperate to make a comeback, Marc falls for the offer until he discovers there’s a catch. Isn’t there always? An awful song is part of the deal. Marc’s challenge is to re-write it and turn it into a hit. Trouble is, he hasn’t written a hit in decades! Can he do it and pull off a cheeky plot twist to fast-track to success?
Marc’s past comes back to bite him in SCAM A-LAMA PAYBACK. Now that, to everyone’s surprise, the Rock Dinosaur has got a hit single and an album, his former publisher schemes to get a dodgy new publishing contract with him. But Marc has learned how to fight back with a mind-blowing plot of his own. Aided and abetted by two feisty women, his tough-as-nails Agent, Felicity, and an old flame, the Contessa, now a world-renowned sculptor, plus his long-time mates Howie and Tony, Marc inches ever closer to the big finish!. In the words of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock – “Revenge is sweet and not fattening”.
