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Title: Shadow of the Rock

Author: Thomas Mogford

Narrator: Daniel Pirrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

On a humid summer night in Gibraltar, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti finds Solomon Hassan, an old school friend, waiting on his doorstep. Accused of murdering a Spanish girl in Tangiers, Solomon swears his innocence. He has managed to skip across the Straits, but the Moroccan authorities demand his return. Spike travels to Tangiers in the hope of delaying the extradition. Solomon's boss Nadeer - the founder of a renewable-energy company called Dunetech that is on the verge of financing an enormous solar-powered site in the Sahara - suggests that if Spike can delay Solomon's trial until after the deal is signed, he will persuade the governor of Tangiers to bury the extradition demand. Complicating this offer, Spike encounters a Bedouin girl who insists that Dunetech is engaged in a nefarious scheme linked to the disappearance of her father. As Spike uncovers the truth, he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a world of secrets, corruption, and murderous lies.

Members Reviews:

Disappointing

Well, what a disappointment "Shadow of the Rock" (SOTR) was. Seemed like a winner of a series. A lawyer based in Gibraltar agrees to help a friend accused of murder in Morocco; and the next book takes place in Malta. After seeing Bogart in "Casablanca" years ago, I'm a sucker for anything with a Moroccan tag, be it a book, restaurant, movie, so I was predisposed to writing a good review for this, but no way. While reading SOTR I often felt like I was watching a foreign language film with no subtitles. I got a sense of what was going on based on the action, but the dialogue was often unclear, and the descriptions of place were lacking. While that was the major problem for me, there were others. The plot was confusing, and I'm not sure what the miracle technology is all about that is so central to events in the book. Also, the hero lawyer (a tax lawyer!) had no problem gaining access whenever to the key executive of a company which has billion euro potential - uhhh, not likely. Ditto for a sex scene and a torture scene. I believe the second book in this series got better reviews than SOTR, but no thanks - I'm done.

could have been really good

Loved the detail about Gibraltar and Morrocco but the lead was two dimensional, not as clearly fleshed out as some of the other characters.

Good

A good pacy thriller. Well worth a read. Moves at speed and keeps the reader guessing. Recommended by William Boyd.

Sleuthing in GIBRALTAR and TANGIERS

Spike Sanguinetti can find his place alongside other European sleuths, and probably (I believe) is the first to be based on the Rock of Gibraltar. But he's not a detective, he's a tax lawyer who is a character on a mission to defend his friend from way back, Solomon Hassan.

Solomon stands accused of murder of a young woman, across the water in Tangiers, and Sanguinetti finds himself travelling there to try and delay Solomonâs extradition to stand trial â he is Jewish and fears incarceration in North Africa.

Tangiers is very different to the Rock, which the author refers to as the âmagical island for the idle Englishâ (and amazingly is apparently only the size of Hyde Park â the things you learn!).

From Gibraltar the reader dives right into the melee that is Morocco.