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ReviewsMike Ripley's Crime File - February 2007 'African Sky' by Tony Park ; 'Deathly Wind' by Keith Moray
This wartime investigation expands to include the thriving black market in petrol, crashed aircraft, missing pilots, racial tension and mob violence and eventually a chillingly modern plot involving political assassination and mass murder. The scale and scope of the book is very ambitious and threatens to spiral out of control towards the end in a very drawn-out climactic chase, but then Africa is a big canvas and Tony Park obviously knows it well and doesn’t short-change his readers. Anyone who ever enjoyed a Wilbur Smith novel will be thrilled with this one.
As if island policeman Inspector McKinnon didn't have enough problems, there are incoming gangsters from Glasgow, suspicious deaths and far too many guns around, threatening human and wildlife alike in one of the most isolated but staggeringly beautiful parts of the country. Mike Ripley is the author of the 'Angel' series and writes a regular column for the Birmingham Post. |