The Music Man

About the Book

This novel is explosive in every sense: it removes the current limits of social mores and blasts them into infinity. Ricardo Garcia Latif, alias the Music Man is an antagonist with panache for original crimes. He takes no prisoners; death and destruction trail behind him and then he vanishes like an apparition. Let him into your world and you come face to face with undiluted evil and paranoia on a scale that will jolt you out of your apathy. When you know him, every stranger you view with suspicion or fear. Westhampton, a town in Sussex is his second target and his identity a mystery, he is free to explode his device.

Army Colonel Imelda Marvell obsession, working in unison  with Ernest Boffey, (Prof) Head of Bring in Terrorists Scheme (BITS), they have to arrest the ‘Phantoms,’ who have already blasted a Yorkshire seaside town, Knightley Bay.

Prof finds a database pattern and enlists the help of Adam Tiff, whose younger brother Tim is mysteriously and brutally murdered. Adam, guitarist in the White Crows Blues Band, drummer Craggy, Saxophonist Goliath, and Vocalist Malcolm, become tangled in a massive hunt.

 The trail leads them not to a political terrorist Cell as assumed, but to one man. By the time they are aware of the full extent of his malevolence, serious doubts immerge about anyone’s ability to capture him before he inflicts more havoc on the public.

After Knightley Bay is decimated, Westhampton becomes the focus for a race against time. Two highly trained professionals put long illustrious careers on the line: for Adam and Malcolm, revenge is their motivation: whilst personal satisfaction is priority for Craggy and Goliath. But that changes.

About the Author

A prolific writer, the author claims she lives under a mound of paperwork and of being reserved when it comes to publication. She was in the past both reticent and possessive to expose her plots and characters. Her unpublished novels were written for fun, to entertain her and keep her content, during a varied career.  Two unpublished novels are, the Green Door, a novel set in Spain, and Family Affairs, one of three shortlisted by the BBC,  with Woman of Substance.

Magazines and newspapers became outlets for her creativity whilst she taught Sociology for several years: during a stint at a director of a property development company, and during her time dealing in Antiques and the Fine Art world.

She has written columns from Health & Beauty to Astrology in newspapers and magazines: published interviews with some rich and famous people and has written two children’s stories, published in Magazines, as well as articles in Archeology.

A few months ago at the inception of the Music man, any reserve and protectiveness disappeared, as the characters demanded to be heard. The White Crows Blues Band musicians insist that they be available to the public and will be loved as they amuse and entertain the reader. The Music man demands his voice should be heard: Music man they will hate with vengeance.

The novel, The Music man represents a movement toward a new and exciting openness of the imagination for Joanna Veronica Rourke, which has been enhanced by extensive travel and experience of all walks of life.

She is English, has lived in the Bahamas and for many years in resided Spain. She now lives on the coast of West Sussex because she loves the sea.  She is happiest most when she takes long walks on the beach with her two terriers.