‘Goodbye, Mr Boogie’ by Jake Needham

My Review (5 stars out of 5)

Nicknamed the Boogieman, an assassin responsible for a string of high-profile murders, comes to the attention of a colonel in the Royal Thai Police. Keen to stop the man before he notches up another killing, the colonel needs someone to track the killer down. Meanwhile, former Detective Inspector Samuel Tay is enjoying his retirement, even if he does admit to being a little dull at times. But when an old friend turns up on his doorstep with a proposition, Sam plays against type and agrees to do the job. The only trouble is, no crime has been committed so Sam doesn’t have much to go on. Knowing that the President of the United States is due to attend an important meeting, Sam needs to find out if this Boogieman even exists, and if he does, work out how to stop him.

This is book 9 in the Sam Tay series and it’s another cracker. This time we find the canny cop dragged into tracking down a killer who may or may not be real. With the help of Special Branch Captain Beer – who also happens to be very attractive – Sam embarks on a difficult task. As always with Mr Needham’s books, there’s a humorous layer running alongside the more serious aspects of the story, and Sam (as usual) is conflicted about everything – disinclined to make small talk, scared of women (Beer in particular), and unwilling to make decisions that don’t involve sitting around the house smoking Marlboros.

An exciting read that kept me riveted from the first page to the last.

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