Like a Bullet
ISBN: 9781803367941
Description
When Erik Make Loud, retired rock star and a major World War Two nut, hires Cordelia, the Paperback Sleuth, to track down a series of lurid paperbacks about his favourite global conflict—the “Commando” novels by the blatantly pseudonymous Butch Raider—it seems like a routine job. But Cordelia soon discovers the final novel in the series, the incredibly rare Commando Gold, is all but impossible to track down.
Reviewed on 1st February 2026
The third Paperback Sleuth adventures sees Cordellia hired to find the rumoured elusive final book in a series of WW2 thrillers, and once again this leads to people really wanting to kill her.
It's fun and silly and gripping. There's so many characters that we meet who are larger than life, and yet totally fit into this world.
I read the entire book in the course of a 3-hour flight, which felt a bit of a waste of such a good book, but also did the necessary job of keeping me entertained and distracted from the real world.
My only worry is that there are no more announced stories in this world, and I've really loved reading them so far.
