Ice Islands
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
On an inhospitable frozen island, Rake Ozenna must gain the trust of a young woman fleeing a Japanese crime empire and caught in the crosshairs of the Russian government.
“Another outstanding geopolitical thriller in Hawksley’s excellent Rake Ozenna series . . . carefully researched, action-packed, and suspenseful” –Booklist Starred Review
Major Rake Ozenna's mission is simple: gain access to the Kato family - Japan's most dangerous crime empire.
But when the secret son of the Russian leader is executed and Rake's target, Sara Kato, is implicated in the murder, a political crisis between Russia, Japan and the US is set in motion.
As Rake learns the true extent of their deadly plans, he must draw on every ounce of his training to succeed. Because if he fails, it won't just be his life that will be lost . . . the consequences will be global.
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“Brass-knuckled international intrigue for readers who still pine for the world of James Bond” –Kirkus Reviews on Man on Fire
“Everything readers want in a political thriller” –Library Journal on Man on Edge
“Authentic settings, non-stop action, backstabbing villains, and rough justice” –Steve Berry on Man on Ice
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hawksley's implausible fourth thriller featuring Alaska native Rake Ozenna (after 2021's Man on Fire) finds Rake, who works for a private security company specializing in investigating "transnational crime networks," and his boss, Harry Lucas, closing in on Michio Kato, who has inherited the helm of a yakuza group. Rake may have found a way to get inside the organization through Michio's sister, Sara, an advocate for Indigenous people, who sends Rake a frantic SOS. Flashback to a peace conference attended by Sara on Finland's Åland Islands. That conclave is disrupted when someone slits the throat of a participant, who turns out to be the illegitimate son of Sergey Grizlov, the Russian president. To avert WWIII, Harry reaches out to his ex-wife, Grizlov's former lover, to persuade Grizlov that the U.S. wasn't behind the murder, even as Rake works to save Sara's life. Awkward prose ("To escape a fabricated rape wrap, an orphan kid from Little Diomede was flying in to carve the mammoth tusk stored in his apartment for the Smithsonian Museum") doesn't help the contrived plot. Fans of intelligent action yarns should look elsewhere.
