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When a Lithuanian trafficker turns up dead on Christmas Eve with a shard of glass embedded in his throat, Lennon's plans to spend the holiday with Ellen are put in jeopardy. The dead man was the younger brother of a ruthless Lithuanian crime boss, Arturas Strazdas, and the young Ukrainian woman who killed him has escaped her captors. Now Strazdas holds the Loyalists responsible and won't let up until everyone involved has paid. A bloody gang war erupts across the city.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Belfast, Galya, the Ukrainian girl, is running for her life, alone and scared, clinging to the darkest corners as the frozen streets empty for the holiday. Galya's captors told her how the police deal with illegal immigrants, that she is a criminal in a foreign land, and the law will not help her. And now she is also a murderer. She cannot be discovered by anyone, not the cops, not the gang who held her prisoner. There is only one person she can go to: a man she met on her first day as a prostitute, a friend who gave her a crucifix and an address to run to if she ever got away. He'd saved four prostitutes before her, he's told her, and she can be his fifth. But when Galya arrives at the address, she finds something more evil than she had ever imagined.
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- ISBN: 9781569479841
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August 8, 2011
At the start of Neville’s accomplished third thriller featuring Belfast Det. Insp. Jack Lennon (after Collusion), Galya Petrova, a 19-year-old Ukrainian girl, kills Tomas Strazdas, brother of notorious Lithuanian crime boss Arturas Strazdas, in self-defense. When Tomas’s body turns up near the harbor with that of a wounded harbor cop, it’s just the beginning of the carnage. Bent on revenge, Arturas instructs his men to find and kill Galya. The action shifts between Jack’s investigation into Tomas’s murder and the frantic flight of Galya, who had been sold into prostitution by the Strazdas brothers’ front company that allegedly employs immigrant laborers. Jack also gets on the trail of the hit men under Arturas’s command, who are cutting a bloody swath across the city, as well as the dirty cops in his own department. When Galya’s would-be rescuer turns out to be a greater threat than the Lithuanian thugs, Neville slowly ratchets up the tension—and the violence—until each page practically twangs with suspense. -
September 15, 2011
Galya Petrova, a young Ukrainian working in Belfast, is forced into prostitution. In escaping that bad situation, she kills the brother of psychotic Lithuanian crime boss Arturas Strazdas and winds up in the hands of another psychotic, a serial murderer of prostitutes. Belfast PI Jack Lennon, whom Neville introduced in Collusion (2010), may be the only person who can save her. He doesn't know Galya exists but is concerned that the prostitute body count has begun to rise. He's more concerned, though, about missing Christmas with his daughter and the machinations of a bent Special Branch cop who has it in for him. Initially, Stolen Souls pales in comparison to Collusion or Neville's debut, The Ghosts of Belfast (2009), which memorably focused on the pathological enmities and horrific violence that plagued Belfast in the 1980s. But the novel hits its stride eventually, thanks to vivid characters and atmosphere. The gray and the rain and the hate of Lennon's Belfast make these streets among the very meanest in the genre.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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