One good home. One useless physique. One dangerous day.
There are 1000’s and 1000’s of respectable houses – very good houses – with no person residing in them.
There are 1000’s and 1000’s of broke younger folks – very good younger folks – with nowhere respectable to stay.
That is the place Al is available in.
Al lives in rich folks’s second homes when the true homeowners are away. He’s charming, convincing and simply misplaced in a crowd. Life is ideal.
However sadly for him, Al and his buddies have simply damaged into the fallacious place, on the fallacious day – and located a physique. And now they’re in an entire heap of hassle.
That includes crooked builders, dodgy coppers and a few very harmful spies, A Newbie’s Information to Breaking and Getting into is a gripping thriller about what it’s prefer to be younger, expert, unemployed – and on the run.
Guide Information: Print size: 456 pages. Writer: Penguin. Publication date: 25 April 2024
My Ideas:
Every so often I prefer to take a break from the darker facet of fiction and browse some mild hearted crime and having seen Andrew Hunter Murray discuss at Capital Crime Competition in London in July I knew I needed to learn his guide.
Al is the principle character and the voice behind the story. He’s an “interloper” which implies he home sits giant and splendid properties while the homeowners are away. Nonetheless, the homeowners don’t truly know he’s there, he researches the properties meticulously, tracks the homeowners whereabouts and breaks in residing hire free till they return after which finds one other property to “home sit”. He’s been efficiently residing this manner for a number of years and utilizing a strict variety of guidelines hasn’t been caught YET.
Nonetheless, as Al is now telling the reader his story from jail, it’s truthful to imagine one thing has gone terribly fallacious involving a useless physique, one other group of interlopers, a police hunt, some felony gangs, lacking thousands and thousands and a number of other spies.
That is an amusing story and I significantly loved Al’s self depreciating and dry humour. My solely quibble was that it was a tad too lengthy for my style and I discovered my consideration drifting on a couple of events. If, nevertheless, you’re on the lookout for a enjoyable escape from actuality, then give this a go.
