Helsinki White
Registered by Tarya of Tammela, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland on 5/10/2020
This book is in a Controlled Release!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Tarya from Tammela, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland on Sunday, May 10, 2020
From goodreads.com:
Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor... and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime.
After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind of their cash, dope, and illegal firearms. But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences...
Meanwhile, Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite having no agenda besides xenophobia. When the country's leading immigrants' rights advocate is assassinated and her head sent by mail to the Finnish Somalia Network, the president assigns Kari to the murder. Cracking this case will involve the unsolved kidnapping of a billionaire's children, a Faustian bargain with a former French legionnaire - and Kate.
G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor... and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime.
After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind of their cash, dope, and illegal firearms. But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences...
Meanwhile, Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite having no agenda besides xenophobia. When the country's leading immigrants' rights advocate is assassinated and her head sent by mail to the Finnish Somalia Network, the president assigns Kari to the murder. Cracking this case will involve the unsolved kidnapping of a billionaire's children, a Faustian bargain with a former French legionnaire - and Kate.
G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
Journal Entry 3 by pippis at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Friday, May 22, 2020
This might be the last Thompson I have yet to read... Such an enormous loss there won't be any more!
Journal Entry 4 by pippis at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Got through a quarter of the book just to realise I've most certainly read this before. Oh well, a dang good, chilling book anyway!
Journal Entry 5 by pippis at Kulma in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland on Sunday, August 28, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (8/28/2022 UTC) at Kulma in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Taking the book to Riihimäki to see if it'll find a new friend!
Journal Entry 6 by Xarodoc at Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland on Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Picked up the book the the meetup in Riihimäki.
Released 1 yr ago (12/22/2022 UTC) at Meckenbeuren, Baden-Württemberg Germany
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Finished reading the book while visiting friends.
I consider myself above average when it comes to know English compared to my fellow Germans, but this book showed me that I am not as good as I thought.
Anyway, I read through, but I have to admit that I prefer the Rebus stories.
I consider myself above average when it comes to know English compared to my fellow Germans, but this book showed me that I am not as good as I thought.
Anyway, I read through, but I have to admit that I prefer the Rebus stories.