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A Million Would Be Nice by Ken Scott

I don't read many books that claim piece of humanity from Newcastle, of
membership of a genre. In my humble which I hope he is not representative.
opinion, a work of fiction should aspire He's a successful young thing, a kind of
to create its own world, describe it, nouveau riche moron, who apparently
communicate it and then live in it. I defines his identity by surrounding
want a book's characters to inhabit the himself with requisite items of designer
events that are portrayed, events that consumption, clearly knowing the price of
are clearly influenced by the character's everything and the value of nothing. He
presence, but which are also usually has everything, does our Donavan, but he
bigger than any individual's is never satisfied. He wants more.
contribution. Wars don't exist unless There isn't a lot to endear us to Donavan
people fight them. Crimes are not Smith. He's a misogynist, and
committed without criminals. Love stories occasionally indulges in some quite
are made by lovers and ghosts don't bizarre behaviour in the bedroom. He
exist. justifies everything with quotes from the
For instance, in my own book, Mission, Bible, a source of justification that was
there are four wars, but it's not a war beaten into him by an abusing mother. He
novel. There are at least three love lets nothing get in his way. He has his
stories, but it's not a romance. There ideas, knows how to achieve them and then
are several deaths, one of which is a ruthlessly destroys anything that might
murder, but it's not a crime novel or a resist. In some ways, he is quite
thriller. And then there's a character creative.
who comes back from the dead to haunt an But one of his conquests becomes an
old man, but it's not a ghost story or a accomplice, because she has inside
fantasy. In short, it's Mission, a novel information about that money that went
set in Kenya. missing in the bank raid. He needs her
So I approached Ken Scott's crime and together they visit people all over
thriller, A Million Would Be Nice, as a the prestigious bits of Europe, Paris,
reader unused to the genre's codes and Cannes, London, the Costas, Newcastle, to
forms. pursue and realise their dream. And
Unlike general or literary fiction, I believe me, this Donavan is nothing if
recognise that learning what happens in A not resourceful and he certainly has a
Million Would Be Nice is one of the main knack when it comes to making things
reasons for reading the book. My review, happen.
therefore, cannot reveal too much of the The story moves at a fast pace. Different
plot. Suffice it to say that there has characters are drawn into the thread and
been a bank robbery. It was an inside job many are inevitably cast aside by Donavan
and the scenario for its execution is Smith, our single-minded, calculating
carefully concocted and inventively anti-hero. And that is as much as I will
created. The perpetrator gets away with relate. A Million Would be Nice claims to
it and scarpers with the loot to live it be a crime thriller, and a crime thriller
up in Spain. is exactly what it is, fast paced, and
On an apparently separate thread, we meet packed with greed, obsession and
Donavan Smith, a quite incredibly vile ruthlessness.




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