One Man Down

 One Man Down

Reviewed By  Ian Banks       March 10, 2025

 

Author  Alex pearl

Distributor:      Collective Ink
ISBN:                 978-1803417172
Publisher:         Roundfire Books
Release Date:   25 February 2025  

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One Man Down is a very tongue in cheek, 1980’s romp, man style, through the world of Advertising, cricket and almost by default, murder, from Alex Pearl, a man who knows plenty about Advertising and very little about murder.

For those old enough to remember the halcyon days of the 1980’s when almost anything went in the world of Commerce, long, liquid lunches were the order of the day and the rise of the Advertising Agencies was meteoric, will absolutely enjoy this totally irreverent, witty walk down memory lane.

Angus Lovejoy and Brian Finkle are Advertising Agency executives tasked with coming up with a new campaign for a client whose main source of income is diarrhoea tablets.

Their somewhat abstract, but funny, pitch failed dismally to impress and so they took themselves of to play cricket at the invite of a friend who needed a quick substitute for a weekend Club match.

From this point onwards, somehow they manage to get themselves involved in local politics, a scam, a blackmailing attempt, what appears to be murder, but then does not, but maybe really is and emerge almost unscathed, but then again, maybe not.

One Man Down is definitely a book for boys, the grown up kind, who love the Pub culture of days gone by, the somewhat astonishingly, fascinating and obsessive world of cricket, a good laugh and perhaps a slight mystery to solve over a pint at the Pub after a good day’s cricket.

Fiction, General, Humour