Let's just do it before it starts raining.

It is sometimes said that truth can stranger than fiction, and if this book is truly based, even in part, on actually occurring facts, in this case it most certainly is.
An aging hack journalist, Jude Johnson, told by his editor to go find a big story, tracks down a multi million dollar lottery winner who had disappeared two years before, and is promptly hired by him to do two things - find out if he really has a son and make him an hero!
This is the story of how Jude, and his erstwhile friend, partner and photographer, Grover, go about accomplishing these instructions and get themselves the story of the decade.

Gloriously funny as well as an exciting adventure thriller, the book is well written and the various incredible characters sparkling leap from the text. This is most ably assisted by the superb performance of narrator Tom Lennon, who gives individual and appropriate voice to each protagonist as well as infusing enthusiasm into his sardonic humour and finely intoned reading.

This book is a delight, easy to hear and one to bring smiles as well as incredulity and amazement with ongoing action. How much is real fact - no idea, and anyway, 'truth is subjective',but it's a rattling good story. My deep thanks to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of Lottery Island, via F.A.F.Y
Recommended.

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