reviewed live on bookshow by Brian Lowen 3rd July 2014
Another
fast paced thriller from the pen of SK.
The central
character is Jones – ex military (Afghanistan) and ex cop (Metropolitan Police)
who after being dismissed from the force for beating up a criminal, joins a
gang working to free the country from immigrants by committing a series of
terrorist attacks and getting them blamed on the Muslin community. He is
working as an undercover agent for Detective Inspector Bolt, his old boss in
the Met.
As in previous
stories by Simon Kernick it also features Tina Boyd, a maverick cop who works
with Bolt, and loves the action, but this always gets her into trouble with the
‘go by the book’ brigade, and Mike Bolt has to rescue her from the situations
she gets in.
The story casts a
morbid outlook on the future of our country with the Police being hamstrung by
the Health and Safety Act and the Human Rights Act.
The story has an
explosive start with two bombs going off in London in quick succession with the
promise of a much larger attack promised at 8.00 pm if their demands are not
met.
All
troops must be removed from Afghanistan. This of course is something that the
Government will not do, so Bolt and his team
are set the task
of catching the terrorists before their ultimatum expires.
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