Five Days to Catch a Monkey

by Jack G. Hills

Steeped in over 2000 years of Chinese history, with the power to change lives, the fabled Golden Monkeys had survived the dynastic emperors of ancient China, only to be separated by the revolution of Mao and his Red Army.
Now in the aftermath of the Iraq war, one of the pair, guarded by a Sentinel, is being hunted by the Chinese Triads eager to return it to The People’s Republic of China, in exchange for riches and favours.
A million miles away from international politics and gangs, in a sleepy South Devon coastal town, two brothers, misfits in today’s society, and struggling to make ends meet, decide it’s time to enter the big league and steal the local zoo’s own Golden Monkey.
Their inept and doomed caper brings them into contact with the Sentinel and the real Golden Monkey and throws them into a world of violence and danger beyond their wildest imaginings.
With assassins and the police bearing down on the trio, it’s only a matter of time before the whole scene kicks off into a winner takes all finale where, the body count resembles the St Valentine’s Day massacre, and the police are left baffled. Will the Golden Monkey’s ever be re-united?

814 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 3, 2013