Last paragraph of the book: Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairytale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From richest to poorest, we start and end with family.
Hardback blurb: Baghdad - Journalist Luca Terracini is living outside the wire and investigating a series of deadly bank robberies involving tens of millions of dollars. But in his pursuit of the truth, he's about to get in the way of clandestine agents and powerful nations who seek to bury secrets and manipulate the truth, regardless of the cost.
London - A thousand miles away, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz is drinking in a bar. He rescues a young woman, Holly Knight, from a violent boyfriend but wakes next morning to find that she's robbed him. It was a set-up - an elaborate scam. Furious at himself, and at her, he sets off to find Holly.
Two seemingly unrelated stories collide in shocking and unexpected ways in this enormously ambitious, compelling thriller about money, politics and the power of the world we live in today.
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My brief take: The Wreckage is Robotham's seventh novel featuring ex-cop Vincent Ruiz and a new character journalist Luca Terracini published in June of this year. I only got hold of this book from my local library last week as I was one in a long line of people holding it and had to wait my turn patiently. This book gives one food for thought about the world's political and financial situations since America went to war with Iraq in 2003. Robotham has brought up issues which are thought-provoking and eye-opening, although how much of the issues are valid leave much to be desired.
However, do not forget to enjoy the thriller as it is, a superb work of an international conspiracy thriller and one of the best books I have come across this year. The chapters alternate between Baghdad and London. If you have not read Robotham before, this book will make you check out his back catalogue. This book will also appeal to people who want some serious reading this summer. I have been a long-time Robotham fan so I cannot say much more than that. I am now eagerly looking forward to the next one.
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The New York Times' Review.
The New Zealand Herald review.
Rating: 5/5
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