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Michael Ledwidge writes thrillers that are a combination of three types of stories: tough guy novels, literary novels, and morality tales. "Bad Connection" is a prime example of his particular talent for doing this. It's a story about a rich man and a poor man, both of them basically good people, but both overcome by greed. Neither of them is the violent type, but when the two of them collide as the poor man goes after... Read Full Review

Bad Connection by Michael Ledwidge is a crime fiction not to be missed. A real compelling page turner.I love reading anything that sounds true-to-life and Bad Connection is exactly that.A thrilling story about a telephone repairman that accidentally overhears a business conversation that helps him make a killing in the stock market.Trouble soon follows after overhearing a follow-up conversation involving the world of finance.Some... Read Full Review

As a mystery writer with my debut novel in its initial release, I enjoy crime fiction that takes unusual twists and turns. Michael Ledwidge's BAD CONNECTION is one such book. Sean Macklin is a Manhattan telephone repairman with a disabled wife and a genuine need for money. While working a telephone line, he overhears a business conversation, and Sean uses his accidentally acquired insider information to make a killing in... Read Full Review

Like the twisted, snaking and sometimes broken telephone lines Ledwidge deftly describes, Bad Connection is an intricate, interconnected and yet unpredictable thriller. Sean Macklin is a Manhattan telephone repairman who begins, innocently at first, listening in on conversations that are ripe with insider-trading information. It's the great telephone worker details and settings that make this book so compelling. We've... Read Full Review

If you like gritty, noirish fiction -- as I do -- then you've gotta read BAD CONNECTION. Set, literally, in the underbelly of New York, its hero is an everyman who seizes an opportunity that he lives to regret. This book made me think about how private telephone conversations are actually very vulnerable; in this high tech age, personal privacy is becoming a very tenuous thing. I enjoy the works of writers like Ed McBain... Read Full Review