THE DEAD BEAT

Book ID/图书代码： 04560013B64638

English Summary/英文概要： If you’re so special, why aren’t you dead?

Meet Martha. It’s the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh’sThe Standard. But all’s not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own.

Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while on the phone, something which echoes with her own troubled past.

Setting in motion a frantic race around modern-day Edinburgh,The Dead Beat traces Martha’s desperate search for answers to the dark mystery of her parents’ past. Soundtracked by and interspersed with a series of gigs from the alternative music scene of her parents’ generation in the early ’90s, Doug Johnstone’s latest page-turner is a wild ride of a thriller, and a perfect follow-on to his #1 Kindle bestseller, Hit & Run.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果你真的如此特别，那你为何还活在世界上？ 让我们与玛莎相遇。今天是玛莎在新工作--作为爱丁堡The Standard的实习生的第一天。然而在这家运作境况不佳的报社里，玛莎的上任并不是那么的顺利，她正保管着一些自己的极为重要的行李。 翻到讣告版面时，她接到了来自前雇员的电话，似乎电话另一端的对方正欲自杀，而此时来自于她自己过去的一些痛苦之处也产生了共鸣。 《致命一击》的故事发生在当代爱丁堡，有关于一个疯狂的民族，沿着玛莎奋力一搏的追寻之旅而展开，她想要寻求关于父母过去的黑暗秘密。 从描写玛莎父母所生活的90年代早期的一系列零零散散的演奏配乐场景出发，杜格•琼斯顿的这部最新力作将带领你踏上一场狂野的惊悚之旅，本书是他的kindle畅销小说Hit & Run的完美续作。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 杜格•琼斯顿是一名作家，他著有五部小说作品，最近的一部为赞誉有加的《再度离开》。此外，他还是一名自由撰稿人，一名歌曲作家和音乐人，他拥有核物理科学博士学位。作者现居爱丁堡。

Doug Johnstone is the author of five novels, most recently the acclaimed Gone Again. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.

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