Mainstream humor with a dash of mystery. A throwback to Hollywood’s film noir reporters, Jock Stewart is out of touch with the looming world of digital journalism.
While he goes out of his way to mock those in authority by pretending to kowtow to them, he admits he does his best work by “being an asshole.” A mix of Don Rickles and Don Quixote, Stewart is the man for the job when the skirts are up and the chips are down.
Hard-boiled reporter Jock Stewart wakes up on the morning after the Star-Gazer office party with a hangover and an old flame in his bed and he cuddles up with the mayor’s wife in the back seat of a 1953 Desoto. Between these defining moments, he investigates the theft of the mayor’s race horse Sea of Fire and the murder of his publisher’s girl friend, Bambi Hill.
Stewart discovers the truth for his news stories via an interview style based on lies, pretense and audacious behavior.
Small town hi-jinks delivered with healthy doses of sarcasm and wit. Jock Stewart is like Guy Noir freed from the confines of public radio. A must-read for anyone who likes their sleuths hard-boiled, their women salty, and their plots with as many twists and turns as a plate of the Purple Platter Diner’s spaghetti.
--Nancy Whitney-Reiter
"Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race,
Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment"
Readers who enjoy hard-bitten, wisecracking characters will surely fall in love
with Jock Stewart, the main character in the new Malcolm Campbell novel, Jock
Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire. The story of the book revolves around the
disappearance of the race horse, Sea of Fire, but it features a wagon load of
human “horsing around” by the many colorful characters Campbell created,
including Coral Snake Smith, Parker House, a preacher named Cotton Mouth
Jock Stewart and The Missing Sea of Fire by Malcolm R. Campbell is a colorful rambling tale rooted in the old Bogart mystery movies or the Mickey Spillane pulp fiction of yesteryears but with more twists than a package of red licorice; with more curves than Lindsey Lohan; with characters as crusty as the pie at the Purple Platter Diner; the plot as thick as the meatloaf entrée they serve there as well. -- Nick Oliva, Only Moments
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