This was an absolute page turner. I had to force myself to put the book down to
go to sleep or I would have been up all night!
The book quickly introduces quite a few characters, but it
doesn’t get confusing. You start to
think they will never link together, but they do link perfectly with explosive
results. There’s Samara whose husband
and son were murdered in front of her in Iraq and she is out for revenge;
Maggie whose husband has returned from Iraq a changed man and has abducted their
son; and Daniel, a Canadian Mountie who finds a murdered family whilst off-duty
mourning the loss of his wife.
I really felt for Samara as her story began to unfold, and
the chapter that describes the murder of her husband and son brought tears to
my eyes. Her anguish and sorrow was felt
in every word on the page. This then
links into Maggie’s own anguish as she joins forces with Daniel to find her
missing son.
This isn’t a book with lots of twists, as it becomes
apparent quite quickly how it is going to play out but it didn’t stop me
turning each page with lightning speed to absorb more of the story. As we all know, the Mountie always gets his
man (or woman).
Mistake alert: In Chapter 31, Mehmet Ali Agca, the would-be
assassin of Pope John-Paul II in 1982, is renamed as the famous cooker, Aga, a
few pages after he is mentioned.
Buy it here from Amazon.co.uk
Buy it here from Amazon.co.uk
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