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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Callaghan in the Cross Hairs

Callaghan in the Cross Hairs

Ekemar, Kim

Paperback

Series: Callaghan Septology, Book 5

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 1717397107
ISBN13: 9781717397102
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 7 2018
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Under the shrewd leadership of Vasily Ivanovich, the Russian Mafia in London is rapidly expanding its business in the UK and on the European continent. To launder the enormous proceeds, they strategically embark on a new, ingenious way to make the profits legal.The heir to the deceased London gangster Jeremiah Flint's fortune decides to send incriminating evidence about Matthias Callaghan to Scotland Yard in retaliation for Callaghan's past dealings with his uncle. When Callaghan travels with his young family from Australia to Italy, he's arrested upon arrival.After being extradited to the UK, Callaghan is eventually released from jail after putting up the requested bail. However, minutes after walking out of prison, he vanishes despite, by court order, having been equipped with a tracking device. Everyone is looking for Callaghan, but no one knows where, or why, he has disappeared.Ekemar (The Callaghan Tetralogy, 2018, etc.) revisits the adventurous exploits of Matthias Callaghan in this exhilarating opening to a new trilogy. Callaghan's odyssey began when he was mutilated by Russian mobsters, received a face transplant at a Swiss clinic, and then set out to wreak revenge. Along the way, he switched faces again to assume his father's identity and continued to juggle the myriad aspects of his convoluted life. Now, his Jekyll-and-Hyde existence seemingly behind him, Callaghan has a new family, a new house, and a new life in Australia. Ekemar spends the lion's share of this installment laying outthe protagonist's situation while establishing the various characters and what roles they'll play in the cliffhanger ending. He effectively assembles a complex web of mobsters, reporters, cops (clean and dirty, local and international), smugglers, and people who've been wronged by one or more of Callaghan's ever shifting personae. The action bounces around to encompass Russian gangster machinations in the United Kingdom, a smuggling operation by plane and camel caravan in Morocco and Mauritania, other members of the Russian mob tailing a dirty cop as he lives it up in France, a crucial arrest at an Italian airport, and a blissfully ignorant Callaghan awaiting his third child. In between, Ekemar skillfully and unobtrusively recaps pertinent details of Callaghan's unique history via dialogue, introspection, speculation, and exposition. Readers will find it useful to read Ekemar's last four Callaghan books before approaching this one. However, it will surely please established fans. A fast-paced, page-turning continuation of a singular and thought-provoking series. - Kirkus Reviews

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