Spaghetti Junction — James Dargan

SPAGHETTI JUNCTION, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson with not a clue in sight. Meet Napoleon 'Nappy' Clancy - ex Birmingham bobbie and Cleveland cop, now a private detective trying to make ends meet - along with his 'sidekick', ex- Dublin guard Barry Fanning. After months of inactivity and in need of cash to pay credit card bills and alimony for his kids in America, Clancy gets a phone call from a beautiful blonde, Clare Jameson, who needs someone to find her missing boyfriend, Roger Diamond, manager of a city centre nightclub. Clancy is up for the job, naturally. We follow him and the reluctant-to-get-involved Fanning as they enter the Birmingham underworld, full of dangerous people with dangerous intentions, until the trail leads the two private eyes to London and a strip club which holds a dark secret. Will Clancy and Fanning solve the case and raise their reputations as private detectives? 'Spaghetti Junction' is a black comedy/crime thriller, and the first volume in a series of Napoleon Clancy books.