Genre:
Thriller
Description:
“Haunted
by memories of an op gone bad, former assassin Leine Basso travels to
Bangkok in search of a missing backpacker. With help from an old
contact, she discovers the man responsible for the girl’s
disappearance is connected to a violent Hong Kong triad and is the
linchpin of an extensive trafficking network—both animal and human.
Making
enemies isn’t new for Leine, but making one in the triad is—she
soon finds herself a prisoner on board a cargo ship headed for
sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure her survival and to continue her hunt
for the missing girl, she must join forces with Derek, an ivory
poacher who promises to help her.”
Author:
“DV
Berkom is the award-winning author of two action-packed thriller
series featuring strong female leads (Leine
Basso and Kate
Jones). Her love of creating
resilient, kick-ass women characters stems from a lifelong addiction
to reading spy novels, mysteries, and thrillers, and longing to find
the female equivalent within those pages.
Raised in
the Midwest, she earned a BA in political science from the University
of Minnesota and promptly moved to Mexico to live on a sailboat.
Several years and a multitude of adventures later, she wrote her
first novel and was hooked.”
For
more, visit her website.
Appraisal:
Cargo
is the fourth book featuring Leine Basso. The short review: this book is
like the others, intense.
Leine has a
talent for getting into tight situations that will have you on the
edge of your seat, wondering how, or even if, she'll manage to
accomplish whatever she set out to do. How is she going to manage to
get out of whatever dangerous situation she's stumbled into? As in
some of Leine's past adventures, in Cargo
she finds herself dealing with
human trafficking and having to find her way in foreign environments
in what I thought was her most intense case so far.
FYI:
Some adult
language.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 75-80,000 words
2 comments:
Thanks, Al!
Thank you for dropping in and commenting, Ms. Berkom.
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