Prepare to be addicted to this pulse-racing thriller, where drugs and politics make for uneasy bedfellows. Nick and Sarah's seemingly separate worlds become intertwined in a way neither of them could have foreseen.
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In this modern western thriller, drug trafficking replaces the old Wild-West gunslinger and cattle-rustling themes, with an ex-convict drugs-runner pursued by the lawmen and a psychopathic hit-man. You will need a strong stomach to cope with all the blood-letting, as here the villains are nastier, the killings grislier - and with no moral certainties any more, whose side will you be on?
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Some crime novels you are there, right in the thick of it, living and breathing every move of the detective. But this book is different and it's that difference that's so compelling. Inspector Avraham comes across as an reluctant detective, maybe jaded, doing the job because he's good at it. Reading it I felt as though I was watching the story unfold through one-way glass in the room next door.
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1992 and the Troubles are far from over - in Alabama USA as well as in Northern Ireland. A gripping, violent, complicated plot makes this book a great thriller, but it also raises interesting questions regarding inherent evil and the problems caused by personal revenge.
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A wonderfully convoluted thriller with a flamboyant cast revolving around Stratos: who is definitely NOT a hitman, in his own eyes at least, This book is for all lovers of noir fiction, but also provides an extremely interesting take on life in modern Greece.
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A gripping fast paced Irish thriller to set your nerves on edge! One of a series featuring down at heel private eye Harry Rigby it can also be read as a stand alone novel. Some deadpan dark humour helps alleviate the extremely graphic violence with some very brutal and unpleasant characters. A page turner if ever there was one which races to an explosive climax in more ways then one!
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One of those crime novels where you know the seemingly unconnected plots will eventually cross, and with a street-smart detective who is not convinced of his client's innocence. However, the detailed descriptions of London made me want to visit the real locations and explore what lies behind the main thoroughfares of the city.
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Fast and deadly like an automatic gun! The Alligator, a private eye with a past, fights against the authorities to ensure justice is done in a drugs case. But what is just? Who decides? And is violence ever justified? You won't find easy answers here ...
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The well-written, deceptively wry narration of the detective hero lends a light note to a very dark plot of malice and corruption in Dublin's horse-racing world. A word of warning for those of nervous disposition: this is a no-holds-barred expose of Irish high society clashing with low-life in a bloody tale of murder, incest, drug-dealing, sadistic priests and child abuse, culminating in an unholy mayhem of Greek tragedy proportions.
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An extremely complicated plot, a treatise on iconography in western art and French detectives who make Clouseau look competent - what more could you want? Well you do actually get a lot more. I found the book fascinating, enlightening, intriguing - the settings are wonderful, the art expensive and the characters larger than life.
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