That Which Doesn't Kill You

by Christian Thompson

Meet Chris O'Brien, private investigator; he's not your run-of-the-mill private eye. Instead he's an ex-psychiatric nurse trained in Chinese medicine, a martial arts expert with a Philosophy degree... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074900553X
• ISBN13: 9780749005535
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful start

Author's first has everything: snappy dialogue, likeable characters, good plot, a few laughs, sex, many quoteable lines, good action including martial arts...

A new British PI

'That Which Doesn't Kill You' is the first in a very promising British PI series. The hero, Chris O'Brien, is similar to Robert B Parker's Spenser in a lot of ways (his way of speech/comments and observations etc). However, his 'Britishness' goes along way to stop him being a straight Spenser clone.The book is well written, fast paced and in parts very funny. The martial arts scenes (Wing Chun) are also handled pretty well. The only criticism I have is with the plot, which has no surprises and covers nothing new (but how many PI plots do?).All in all a good first novel. I'm looking forward to the follow up already!