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A carregar... No Good Deed (2001)por Manda Scott
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  auntieknickers | Apr 3, 2013 |    ) fordbarbara | Jul 8, 2009 | The author , Manda Scott lives and works in Scotland and writes thrillers and historical fiction. This is her first non-series book. My copy has been signed by Ms. Scott which makes it special though it is a trade paperback. DI Orla McLeod was part of a Special Branch undercover operation attempting to nail one of the most feared criminals in Europe, Tord Svenson. The operation goes badly wrong and Orla and a nine year old boy are the sole survivors of a shoot out in a sleazy Glasgow tenement. The child, Jamie, is an important witness , he alone having seen Svenson and witnessed the savage torture and murder of another undercover police officer. Orla must keep him safe and she and her undercover team attempt to recover their mission but Svenson seems to know their plans ahead of time. This is a compulsive and exciting read, highly recommended. (  ) bhowell | Mar 16, 2009 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Orla McLeod knows too much about violence for her own good. She knows about pain and how to inflict it, she knows about guilt and she knows about survival. And because she was barely a teenager when she learnt all this, she know what these things can do to a child. So when she and a nine-year-old boy are the only ones left alive in a freezing Glasgow tenement after a Special Branch undercover operation she was spearheading has gone disastrously wrong, there's no way Orla McLeod's going to hand Jamie Buchanan over to social services. Not when Jamie's the sole witness to Tord Svensen committing an act of savagery of the type that's rapidly turning him into one of the most feared criminals in Europe. Especially since Svensen knows a lot about survival too. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — A carregar...GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.88)
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Orla MacLeod and Luke, one of her colleagues in a four-person special police unit, are undercover in the Glasgow slums on the track of a drug lord. I don't want to spoil any of the suspense, but Orla does end up with custody of a small boy who has seen far too much and may be in danger. She takes him to the Highlands, where her widowed mother lives. Both Orla and her mother were disfigured, and Orla's father and brother killed, in Northern Ireland years ago. The reader begins to suspect that a man whose trial precipitated the killing is now out of prison and possibly looking for Orla and her mother. This is one of those books where you begin to suspect just about everybody -- there's even some possibility of police corruption -- and those are not usually my favorite, but this one is so well done that it brought me into the same mindset for a while. The Highland and Glasgow settings are evocative and the protagonists very quickly grow to be people you care about a lot. Highly recommended, and please, Ms. Scott, come back to writing mysteries! (