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Blood Count
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Journal Entry 1 by KaKo27 from Sarisbury Green, Hampshire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 5, 2012
As usual with a Goddard novel, breathlessness is guaranteed whilst reading. The plot winds in serpentines and you are never sure, where it will take you.
This novel questions in addition to the usual suspense how our actions will affect the turn individual lives can take, and if we are responsible for the wider impact an immidiate deed will have if we do something, which seems to be right at the moment but will it be in the bigger picture? Very thought-provoking. The book gives also an insight into the civil war on the Balkans in the 1990's.
From Fantastic fiction:
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved, his men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars.
Now Gazi's family want more from him: in exchange for keeping Hammond's dirty little secret, they want him to find for them the man who holds the key to all the money Gazi squirreled away before he was locked up. But Italian financier, Marco Piravani, doesn't want to be found, not by Hammond, not by anyone. No sooner has Hammond tracked him down, than Piravani has disappeared again.
His pursuit will take him first to the Hague, and then to Milan to find the Italian, and then finally back to the scene of his crime, Belgrade, where he must confront the decisions he once so easily took. Only then will he be able to lay the past to rest.
This novel questions in addition to the usual suspense how our actions will affect the turn individual lives can take, and if we are responsible for the wider impact an immidiate deed will have if we do something, which seems to be right at the moment but will it be in the bigger picture? Very thought-provoking. The book gives also an insight into the civil war on the Balkans in the 1990's.
From Fantastic fiction:
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved, his men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars.
Now Gazi's family want more from him: in exchange for keeping Hammond's dirty little secret, they want him to find for them the man who holds the key to all the money Gazi squirreled away before he was locked up. But Italian financier, Marco Piravani, doesn't want to be found, not by Hammond, not by anyone. No sooner has Hammond tracked him down, than Piravani has disappeared again.
His pursuit will take him first to the Hague, and then to Milan to find the Italian, and then finally back to the scene of his crime, Belgrade, where he must confront the decisions he once so easily took. Only then will he be able to lay the past to rest.
