Actor and fun, middle-aged psychopath Matt Spiller has finally made it to Hollywood. With a big movie under his belt, his life as a provincial English taxi driver is firmly in the past. As are the drug dealers he was forced to kill.
He’s landed the lead role in a TV series called Veteran Avenue, and he’s got a new girlfriend.
Life is improbably peachy.
Then people start arriving in LA.
His ex-wife is the least of his worries; she just wants to send him on a guilt trip.
His ex-agent, on the other hand, wants a chunk of his new-found wealth, and will use blackmail to get it, while a dogged detective wants to jail him for a spate of unsolved murders.
And when Spiller stumbles upon a secret that could destroy Hollywood, a hell of a lot of people want him dead.
What did I think?
I've thoroughly enjoyed all of Mark Pepper's novels and it feels like they were all leading up to the pinnacle of Bad Actors. You can of course read Bad Actors as a standalone but you won't pick up the references to all of Mark Pepper's previous books and I absolutely loved how they were all woven into the fantastic plot.
It's the second book featuring Matt Spiller who we met in Man Down and the former British taxi driver is living it up in LA after starring in a major movie and then securing the lead role in a TV series. Everything is going great but this is Matt Spiller we're talking about and when it goes wrong, it goes spectacularly wrong.
I really don't want to give away any of the plot so I'm saying no more about it but believe me when I say that this is a book you don't want to miss. The whole book is outstanding from the amazing cover to the explosive plot and the characters that are so razor-sharp you need to wear gloves when reading about them.
Blisteringly fast-paced and incredibly gripping, if Bad Actors was any grittier it would be a tonne of grit. Without doubt, it's all of the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Bad Actors so it's an easy five stars from me. One of the streaming services or a film producer seriously needs to pick up this book right now! I don't often shout but I'm shouting now: DON'T MISS THIS BOOK!!!
Many thanks to Mark Pepper for sending me a digital ARC to read and review; this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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