Charles Harris
Play me!
PLAY ME!
FINALIST – PAGE TURNER AWARDS 2025
AxMan Flyn is desperate to make his mark.
A hapless Jewish rock-star, real name Benjamin Goldstein, his career has been fading for too long. So, he grabs a chance to front a high-profile charity concert in the Caribbean, promote himself and hopefully do some good in the world. But hardly has he arrived than he stumbles in on the assassination of the island’s president in a coup. And, to his horror, the new gangster-president frames him as the killer.
Condemned to death, AxMan goes on the run, chased by a police force which is determined to stop him revealing the truth.
A real softie, despite a tough stage image, he is forced to come out of his shell and fight for his life. And the only person who can help him is another gangster.
But of course nothing is ever straightforward and AxMan’s pride and hunger for fame keeps getting in the way – along with his over-eager fans.
Play Me! is a heavy-metal comedy crime novel. If stories of fish out of water, unlikely heroes and twisty plots strike a chord with you, you’ll love this rollicking tale where celebrity rock meets a dangerous underworld of violent mobsters, desperate guerrillas and unscrupulous politicians – and death is on the playlist.
Charles Harris is a best-selling author and international award-winning writer-director for film and TV. His debut novel, the tabloid-based dark comedy The Breaking of Liam Glass took first place on Amazon’s Hot New Releases for satire and was nominated for two literary awards.
His second, the psychological thriller Room Fifteen, was also an Amazon best-seller in its genre. While his movie Paradise Grove won Best New Director and Best Jewish Film in Palm Springs and was hailed by the Jewish Chronicle as the “Anglo-Jewish Comedy of the Year.”
He has appeared on BBC TV and radio, and written and directed for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, as well as freelance work for national and local newspapers and magazines, and co-founded the first screenwriters workshop in the world, London Screenwriters Workshop, now Euroscript.
He has a wife, who lives with him in Hampstead, and two sons, who don’t.
Charles Harris
Play me!
PLAY ME!
FINALIST – PAGE TURNER AWARDS 2025
AxMan Flyn is desperate to make his mark.
A hapless Jewish rock-star, real name Benjamin Goldstein, his career has been fading for too long. So, he grabs a chance to front a high-profile charity concert in the Caribbean, promote himself and hopefully do some good in the world. But hardly has he arrived than he stumbles in on the assassination of the island’s president in a coup. And, to his horror, the new gangster-president frames him as the killer.
Condemned to death, AxMan goes on the run, chased by a police force which is determined to stop him revealing the truth.
A real softie, despite a tough stage image, he is forced to come out of his shell and fight for his life. And the only person who can help him is another gangster.
But of course nothing is ever straightforward and AxMan’s pride and hunger for fame keeps getting in the way – along with his over-eager fans.
Play Me! is a heavy-metal comedy crime novel. If stories of fish out of water, unlikely heroes and twisty plots strike a chord with you, you’ll love this rollicking tale where celebrity rock meets a dangerous underworld of violent mobsters, desperate guerrillas and unscrupulous politicians – and death is on the playlist.
Charles Harris is a best-selling author and international award-winning writer-director for film and TV. His debut novel, the tabloid-based dark comedy The Breaking of Liam Glass took first place on Amazon’s Hot New Releases for satire and was nominated for two literary awards.
His second, the psychological thriller Room Fifteen, was also an Amazon best-seller in its genre. While his movie Paradise Grove won Best New Director and Best Jewish Film in Palm Springs and was hailed by the Jewish Chronicle as the “Anglo-Jewish Comedy of the Year.”
He has appeared on BBC TV and radio, and written and directed for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, as well as freelance work for national and local newspapers and magazines, and co-founded the first screenwriters workshop in the world, London Screenwriters Workshop, now Euroscript.
He has a wife, who lives with him in Hampstead, and two sons, who don’t.