Helsinki White
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Inspector Kari Vaara, recovering from brain surgery, is back to doing police work—under circumstances most cops only dream of. Reporting directly to the national chief of police, Kari and his partners Milo and Sulo have been granted secrecy and autonomy for their new black-ops unit, and plenty of cash to work with, including whatever they can steal from Helsinki’s mobsters.
But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences...The president of Finland wants the team on a new case: the vicious assassination of a prominent immigrants' rights activist. Against a backdrop of simmering hatred spreading across the country, Kari must solve a case that involves the kidnapping of a billionaire’s children, a Faustian bargain with a former French Legionnaire—and his own wife.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Racial hatred drives Thompson's explosive third thriller featuring Insp. Kari Vaara (after 2011's Lucifer's Tears). When Finland's national chief of police asks Kari to head a covert team to fight organized crime by hijacking buys and planting drugs and guns on rival dealers, all allegedly to help clean up Helsinki, Kari realizes that he'd be complicit in corruption, as the money collected would not only fund the operation but also funnel back up the chain of command. Kari's American wife, Kate, understands the implicit risks, but doesn't immediately object. Flawed team members include his eager-beaver partner, Milo Nieminien, and the imposing but na ve Sulo "Sweetness" Polvinen. The murder of the minister of immigration, Lisbet S derlund, whose head is sent by mail to the Finnish Somalia Network with a note denouncing her pro-immigration stance, raises the ante. A race war threatens, with the right-wing Real Finns Party fanning the flames. Thompson deftly explores moral gray areas in this all too topical novel.
