#BlogTour | #BookReview | ALWAYS ADAM by Mark Brumby @brumbymark (November 30th 2020) #AlwaysAdam @AdamGregorReid @ASpencerBeck @BoomslangBooks @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours

Hello and welcome to our stop on the Always Adam blog tour!

Thank you very much to Emma @ Damppebbles and Mark Brumby for providing a copy of the book to [K]

The review below is 100% honest and all of her own views.

Blurb:

London-based financial journalist Spencer Beck is obsessed with billionaire biotech prodigy, Adam Reid, orphaned in his mid-teens when his parents died in a tragic murder-suicide in New York City. A shadowy informant with MI5 connections promises Beck unfettered access to the mysterious Reid and introduces him to Daniel Flanagan, a retired Big Apple detective who investigated the deaths of Adam’s mother and father. Spencer’s initial scepticism, fed by the suspicions of the former police officer, turns to excitement when Reid reveals the truth about himself and his altruistic ambitions to protect society from a deadly virus with a powerful vaccine he’s developed. But when Beck’s entire world starts to implode, he discovers Reid harbours a vendetta that, left unchecked, threatens not only his survival but that of an entire species.

Review:

When we first meet Spencer he is pottering along in his journalism job, when he receives information regarding the mysterious Adam Reid he is hoping this will be the story he has been waiting for.  Orphaned as a teenager Adam has turned into a biotech billionaire, with this level of success Spencer is sure Adam must have some skeletons in the closet that would make a brilliant newspaper story.

I found this to be a compelling read that I actually could not put down. We are offered little snippets of information that kept me wanting to read just a little more, and when all these snippets came together, wow! I did not see that coming!

This was unlike any pandemic thriller I have read previously and I doubt I will read anything like it again. I will definitely be recommending this to my friends to read.

I wonder if we will be seeing more of Spencer in the future?

[K]

Author Bio:

A Cambridge economics graduate, Mark Brumby is a vastly experience financial analyst and owner of Langton Capital, an FCA-regulated advisory company specialising in the hospitality and leisure sectors. He is a partner in the Imbiba Partnership, which invests in pub, bar and restaurant start-ups.

Mark wrote Always Adam (originally published as Payback) in 2013. Boomslang is republishing the book in November 2020 as it deserves to reach a wider audience in the current pandemic climate.

“Covid-19 has brought home not just the fragility of human life but the power of vaccines. Very shortly, we hope, a vaccine could physically alter the cell structure of three or four billion people and protect the same number again via herd immunity. But what if a vaccine were misused?”

“In some ways the world has changed but in many ways it remains the same. The ‘facts’ re our existence have not and will not change. But the events of the last few months have brought home the truth that we are only animals and that we are almost as much at risk from novel diseases with high R ratios and significant mortality rates as we have ever been.”

“I tried to take a step back and look at how we got here & what we’re doing. That sounds deep but some 99% of species that have ever existed are extinct, so what makes us so special?”

“Indeed, we’ve very nearly joined the list of ‘used-to-be’ species list on several occasions. Anthropologists believe that the human population at times in our history fell to a total of less than 10,000 individuals worldwide. You could fit them all in a small football ground and it’s more than a 99.99% reduction on the number of people around today.”

“As an author, Covid-19 has moved the goalposts a little. It has made the unbelievable a little more believable. A pandemic, until December of last year was, literally, a fiction.”

Mark Brumby is married with five children and commutes between London and his home in York.

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