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Tim O'Brien

581. R. J. Ellory - A Simple Act Of Violence


I have read this before with little memory of it, but would say it is the best of 2018 so far.

Really clever plotting, looks like a police procedural with the killer interposing himself into the plot sporadically with comments from his point of view, but in reality he has only one victim and it is the mercy killing of his lover, and he is trying to draw the forces of law and order into uncovering a huge CIA based conspiracy involving the import of cocaine into the US via central America and the whole Oliver North scandal.

The killer is himself ex CIA, and most of the murderees were also former operatives killed not by him, but by the organisation.

Very very clever, and a great (& long) read.


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