Product Description

Tweed and Paula of the SIS take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from the plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A vital clue leads them to a remote and beautiful county, an area controlled by the human but dangerous 'Pit Bull'. They meet Pit Bull's strange family: his volatile daughter, Margot; his other intelligent daughter, Sable; his well-mannered and observant son, Lance; and Mrs Shipton, their grim housekeeper. Into the picture appears the enigmatic private detective, Falkirk, and world traveller, Archie MacBlade. Tweed explores the local village, peculiar in its ways, and meets the local gossip, Mrs Grout. With Paula at his side, he visits the strange town of Gunners Gorge, bloodstained by Cromwell long ago. More murders are committed. 'Not the work of a serial killer,' Tweed insists, 'I sense something much bigger ...' Is Finden Square the key? HQ of ONTRANTO, the giant oil corporation, is hidden in the heart of London and owned by the devious womanizer, Neville Guile. Tweed and Paula accelerate their dangerous race to solve the diabolical mystery. But time is not on their side ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24836 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Colin Forbes is the author of twenty-nine thrillers which are now published into thirty languages. He writes a novel every year.

Customer Reviews

The Savage Gorge
What a tragic final novel. Nothing like his previous novels and nowhere near as well written. The imaginary setting does not do Colin Forbes justice as the geographical researches for previous novels did. I assume the poor man was ill and unable to research a real place.
The text is not up to standard either and there are references to events, decisions and information which do not connect. Such a shame that a fine author's previous works should culminate in this travesty.

Typical recent Colin Forbes
This is Colin Forbes last book. Apparently, he died only weeks after completing it - which is sad. May he rest in peace.
Because of this, I am particularly sad to have to give this a negative review, however I'm afraid to say I didn't particularly enjoy it - which is always a shame with an author's last book, as he can never improve on it.

However, I have to say that I have not enjoyed any of his more recent books as much as the earlier ones, and I'm afraid that, in my opinion, this one was probably the worst of the lot. I'm not sure why, but Tweed's change to solving murders etc just don't have me as gripped as his international thrillers did. Also, with this book more than with any of his previous books, I found myself getting irritated with the repetitive descriptions of what people were wearing - 'Lance was wearing a white top with beige trousers, and looking smart as ever' type of thing.

Close to the end of the book was the typical 'let's wipe out the baddies' type of scene - unfortunately with far more gratuitous violence then really needed.

On the whole, this was a real disappointment - probably his weakest book ever. What a shame to go out on such a low.

A Poor Last Novel
The Savage Gorge is, sad to say, not a good example of this author's work. Like some of his most recent books it is very 'formulaic' - rich, evil villian, dis-functional family full of suspects, simplistic plot and a team working for Tweed which hasn't changed or developed significantly for years. The new characters are very shallow and all feel like they lack substance.

Overall it lacks the suspense and tension of his earlier work and was a disappointing read.

If you are looking for a good book by this author, this isn't it.