veteran of the Army Reserve with deployments to Kosovo and Iraq. He is a police officer in a New England city and the married father of two boys.
Colt applied the Page 69 Test to his new Andy Roark mystery, The Banker, and reported the following:
If a curious person, say in a bookstore picked up The Banker and randomly turned to page 69 to see if the writing grabbed them here's what they'd get. Vietnam veteran, former Special Forces Sergeant, former Boston Cop, Andy Roark is in Amesbury Massachusetts surveilling a bank in the spring of 1986. Weeks earlier he was hired to figure out which of three suspects had been embezzling funds from it. Roark quit the case because it was boring. Then the bank was robbed and one of the suspects was murdered. The timing is too coincidental and Roark decides he's back on the case, even if the Bank's President doesn't want to hire him back. Page 69 finds Roark parked outside the bank as one of the two remaining embezzlement suspects leaves for lunch. He follows her into a deli where he has a discussion with her.Visit Peter Colt's website.
Page 69 is a good snapshot of what the book is about. Andy Roark is doing classic PI stuff, tailing and bracing a suspect. There is enough of the backstory on page 69 to give the reader some idea what the book is about. There's certainly enough description to hold a reader's attention. There is enough inner monologue for the reader, if they are new to the series to get a sense if they like the protagonist, don't call him a hero, Andy Roark.
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The Page 69 Test: Back Bay Blues.
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The Page 69 Test: Death at Fort Devens.
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Writers Read: Peter Colt (June 2022).
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The Page 69 Test: The Ambassador.
The Page 69 Test: The Judge.
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My Book, The Movie: The Banker.
--Marshal Zeringue
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