Bad Connection

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Summary: A crime fiction not to be missed
Review: Bad Connection by Michael Ledwidge is a crime fiction not to be missed. A real compelling page turner.

I love reading anything that sounds true-to-life and Bad Connection is exactly that.

A thrilling story about a telephone repairman that accidentally overhears a business conversation that helps him make a killing in the stock market.

Trouble soon follows after overhearing a follow-up conversation involving the world of finance.

Some of my favorite books of fiction are that of the powerful and rich. Bad Connection is everything a wonderful mystery should be!

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Summary: a fast-paced, interconnected and twisting thriller
Review: Like the twisted, snaking and sometimes broken telephone lines Ledwidge deftly describes, Bad Connection is an intricate, interconnected and yet unpredictable thriller.

Sean Macklin is a Manhattan telephone repairman who begins, innocently at first, listening in on conversations that are ripe with insider-trading information. It's the great telephone worker details and settings that make this book so compelling. We've got underground warrens of cable below manhole covers, long-forgotten dungeons of telephone technology and cell-phones as part of the plot. Isn't it great to read a well-crafted and tight thriller that also describes a world we all know must be just behind the "danger, no entrance" sign but we've never actually seen? Cops, secret agents, Medical Examiners and the like most often the subjects of thrillers. But because they are always on TV and in movies, we know something about them and so as thriller fodder they sometimes fall flat. Not with telephone repairmen, Ledwidge has crafted a wonderful fast-paced tale from their unknown world.

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Summary: QUITE A RIDE!
Review: This was a fast, tense, twisting tale, all the more exciting because it was written by a guy with inside information. Mr. Ledwidge seems destined for a long career in this genre. This would make a terrific movie. His characters come alive, his dialogue is crisp, and his action sequences are not for the faint of heart...everything the action flick devotee loves. I already have the lead actors chosen...