When Fear Stalks: A Case for 'the Player'

When handsome Australian art detective Jack Truepster, also known as 'the player,' is visiting an art gallery in Madrid with a beautiful young lady, they are attacked by kidnappers who whisk his companion away.

During the attack Jack is knocked unconscious and he wakes up in a police cell accused of being complicit in the kidnap. He also learns that the victim, Laura, is the daughter of a senator who is trying to extradite a criminal to America to face trial for drug offences. The criminal, a Johnny Vazo just happens to have a powerful underground buddy in Madrid and together they hatch a plan to get Vazo off the hook. It involves the kidnap of the senator's daughter, Laura, pure and simple.

It soon becomes clear that the kidnappers want the extradition of Johnny Vazo to be stopped in return for the safe return of the kidnap victim. It's nothing less than blackmail. The senator has the authority to withdraw the extradition order, but he has spent many months on the case, and it would mean a waste of all that time and effort.

But the kidnappers have made it clear that his daughter Laura's life hangs in the balance unless the senator agrees to their terms. The distraught senator's wife demands swift action from her husband, but as he is a man of duty and responsibility, he is dithering.
It seems that only the enterprising Jack Truepster and his sidekick, Dino, may have the ingenuity to outwit the kidnappers and unravel the corruption which surrounds the case. But will they succeed when the odds are greater than anyone has realised?

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