Ripper - Michael Slade

Ripper is the fourth novel written by a team of Canadian Lawyers under the pseudonym of Michael Slade and is, without question, my favourite of all their earlier thrillers save perhaps for their debut, Head Hunter. Taking place five years after the events of Cutthroat, this new novel catches up with the old and familiar characters of Chief Superintendant Robert De Clerq and former Police Inspector Zinc Chandler; Zinc currently on sick leave following a gun-shot to the head that nearly killed him which has now left him suffering from Epilepsy and a mere shadow of his former self.... Zinc has had it hard recently; his mother, young son, ex-girlfriend and fiancee ...  Read the complete review