Michael Robotham - The Night Ferry

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Bestelnummer: 11-0087

Beschrijving

Recovered from her life-threatening accident in `Lost/The Drowning Man', Alisha Barba is the police detective at the centre of Robotham's latest crime thriller, trying to uncover the truth surrounding the death of an old school friend Cate Beaumont, a pregnant woman accidentally run down by a taxi on the street right in front of her eyes.  
The circumstances of her death, coming immediately after Cate had contacted Alisha looking for help, and the discovery that the pregnancy was faked, take the Sikh PC to Amsterdam on the trail of the illegal trade in babies.  
Along the way, Alisha enlists the services of the now retired Detective Inspector Ruiz and `New Boy' Dave, and gets mixed up in a murky world of former IRA killers and people trafficking.  
 
Despite the use of familiar characters, no former knowledge of Robotham's previous novels is required here to enjoy the breakneck pace and fluid readability of his writing.  
As with Robotham's other thrillers, you have to put aside the unlikely ease with which a maverick police officer is able to act well outside their official capacity and jurisdiction in the undertaking a private investigation, but there are few authors who can create a confrontation with ruthless and violent criminals with such precision and such a real sense of danger that you cannot be certain that the good guys will come out of it unscathed - and often they don't.  
 
Like Inspector Ruiz's gypsy connections, Barba's Sikh heritage and the international connections of the case give the investigation a colourful flavour and character.  
Her own situation after her accident in the previous novel gives the nature of the storyline a more personal investment, so you know what exactly is at stake here, even if the circumstances are just a little too convenient.  
But Robotham's real achievement here is in blurring the moral lines between the intentions of the criminals and their actions, between the need for justice and protecting the innocent, giving the reader something much more serious to consider than the standard police thriller.  
 
Sphere (2008), 520 blz. 
Paperback. 
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