Body Broker

Written by Daniel Ford

Narrated by Angelo Di Loreto

Best-selling author Daniel M. Ford presents the first volume in an exciting modern-day detective series

When a teenager disappears from an elite boarding school, local police throw the seemingly innocuous case to
their neighborhood PI. Enter Jack Dixon: college dropout, ex-cop, and ex-cook. What should be a simple case quickly
turns sour, pushing Jack into the path of Nordic biker cultists and vicious drug dealers. But the houseboat-dwelling PI
is determined to find the truth—and the missing kid—even though his persistence leads him into a thorny tangle of
drugs and violence that could rip his sleepy waterfront life apart

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781980096931

Daniel Ford

Daniel Ford has spent a lifetime reading and writing about the wars of the past hundred years, from the Irish rebellion of 1916 to the counter-guerrilla operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is best known for his history of the American Volunteer Group--the 'Flying Tigers' of the Second World War--and his Vietnam novel that was filmed as Go Tell the Spartans, starring Burt Lancaster. Most recently, he has turned to the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Germany and Soviet Russia. Most of his books and many shorter pieces are available in digital editions He lives and works in New Hampshire.

Reviews for Body Broker

[squeakychu · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I was surprised to find that I was actually drawn into this crime story as that's not the kind of book I usually like. Several things made this book especially fun for me. I'm a Maryland resident who has taken several trips to Pennsylvania over the past few years so I was pretty familiar with the territory in which the story was set. Oddly, the book started off with Jack Dixon, the private investigator, eating peanut butter from a jar. I do the same thing and did so twice just by chance when Jack Dixon was doing likewise. When Jack Dixon was told to eat carrots instead of peanut butter, I was eating a carrot salad while reading that part of this book! This serendipity didn't have anything especially to do with the story, but it made it fun for me anyway! Last, I was very entertained by the humor in this book. Some of the one-liners by this author not only had me laughing out loud, but also had me writing down some great quotes. Well, now to the story. It tells of a body-builder type of rough guy who lives on a boat house and is trying to make a living as a private investigator. He is assigned to find a missing teenager by the distraught, but rich, mother. The search for the teenager who has gone missing from his elite boarding school takes Jack Dixon to Pennsylvania where he has to deal with rough Nordic motorcycle club members. There is violence, but Jack Dixon fights tough with tough and the case is resolved.I found this an entertaining read and look forward to the next book in this series which should be coming soon. From this story: "I'd found that opening up the bar this soon on the first day of the workweek was not precisely a formula for investigative excellence."