The Wreckage Thriller Book - Gripping Mystery for Crime Fiction Fans

This is Michael Robotham's magnum opus to date. The subject(s): terrorism, international banking, the war in Iraq, national interagency cooperation/rivalry; grand (very grand) larceny.Money is disappearing from Iraqi banks and turning up in London, where it is being laundered. International sleazeballs are turning up in London. Terrorists in the employ of international sleazeballs are operating in Luton (and, eventually, they hope, London). An international enforcer/courier is operating in London, eliminating those who are discovering the dimensions of the international plot. A banker disappears. His pregnant wife attempts to understand why. Individuals are being ripped off in a badger game run by an ex-military type and his much-abused but endearing girlfriend. One is the now-missing banker; another is retired Met DI, Vincent Ruiz, who is dragged, unknowingly, into the international plot.Vince also brings in his old pal Joe O'Loughlin on the case, so the Robotham reunion is complete. While The Wreckage involves a stretch of plausibility, principally Ruiz's being drawn into the case, the plotting is large-scale, complex and a little convoluted, but, somehow, still easy to follow. The cast of characters is large and each is very special. Robotham knows London, so the evocation of setting is superb, but here we learn that he also knows Iraq (or, at least, is very deft at faking it).Robotham began his writing career as a journalist and his journalistic talents are on full display here. The story is based on some real events and his reportage of the doings in Iraq (based on other journalists' reportage) is very impressive. It is no accident that one of the subsidiary heroes of the story is a practicing journalist.So here it is in one tidy package: a truly international thriller, taken, as they say, right from contemporary headlines, featuring two tried-and-true though at one point deaf and speechless heroes from previous Robotham novels.Don't miss it.