The Detriment
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My review -
Jake
is faced with a number of crimes which don’t appear to be connected. He
recklessly attempts to disarm a car bomb (which fails to detonate anyway). A
spy is found in his own garden and it’s assumed he leapt from his window in the
block of flats. Jake’s old girlfriend enlists his help in something suspicious.
There’s a lot going on in this novel and all of it illegal, nasty and involving
high-level corruption.
David
Videcette knows how to crank up the tension. His protagonist, Jake, is often
out on a limb but can’t let bad things happen. I was torn so many ways in this
story, wanting bad people not to get away with it though I feared some of them
would. Everything isn’t always black and white and Jake has to deal with the
shades of grey and choose between the lesser of the evils. This is a very
through-provoking book and the section at the end, taken from real documents,
is a bit of a shocker. Really, this is a book not to miss.
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