A Fragile Thing: A thriller
Written by Kevin Wignall
Narrated by Scott Merriman
4/5
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About this audiobook
His perfect life hangs on a knife edge—and the balance is about to slip.
Max Emerson launders money for some of the most dangerous people in the world. To protect the perfect life he’s built, he keeps on the right side of the law, but sometimes staying clean isn’t enough…
When his parents die in what seems to be a tragic accident, Max needs answers. But as he starts investigating, he discovers something about his parents that makes him question everything he thought he knew. And when the FBI starts digging into his crooked clients, Max’s whole world seems to be on the brink of collapse.
As Max returns to his estranged family, long-buried secrets threaten to destroy everything he has built and Max has to decide who he can trust. After all, he’s not the only one who will go to any lengths to cover his tracks…
Kevin Wignall
Kevin Wignall is a British writer, born in Brussels in 1967. He spent many years as an army child in different parts of Europe and went on to study politics and international relations at Lancaster University. He became a full-time writer after the publication of his first book, People Die (2001). His other novels are Among the Dead (2002); Who is Conrad Hirst? (2007), shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Barry Award; Dark Flag (2010); The Hunter’s Prayer (2015, originally titled For the Dogs in the USA), which was made into a film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush; A Death in Sweden (2016); The Traitor’s Story (2016); and A Fragile Thing (2017); and To Die in Vienna (2018).
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Reviews for A Fragile Thing
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First, let me say, this is not a "thriller." Rather, it is a rich, sophisticated, and accomplished character study of Max, a wealthy and connected international financier of ambiguous character who realizes he is not who he wants to be. Yet, he is stymied to change that because he does not know what it is that he really wants to be. In unwinding heretofore unknown family secrets in an attempt to discover who his parents, suspiciously killed together in a motor accident, were, he is forced to confront sources of sibling hostility and the pursuit of his own mental constructs that have effectively estranged him from family.What ultimately makes this book compelling is that it is really an exploration of the morality of money and the self deceptions we endure in order to lend meaning to events in a desire to corroborate our own views. And what ultimately makes the novel great fiction is that Max is entirely and naturally human -- a man of ability, charm, and a special honesty. Readers may find Max's affixed moral compass unique and perhaps beyond magnetic. . .well, read and decide for yourself if it points true north.If you like le Carre's George Smiley, you will be just as absorbed into the mind and exterior world of Max. Kevin Wignall has constructed a modern hero/anti-hero for our times and as an added bonus, set him down on the beautiful shores of Lake Maggiore, Italy.