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The Outcast by Michael Walters(link is external) - Quercus Publishing Plc (2008), Hardcover, 320 pages [Our New Books - LibraryThing(link is external)]

 

It's quite fortuitious that this book arrived this week from the fabulous Book Depository.  The current discussion book on 4MA is The Shadow Walker which is the first book in the series.  I'd read the second - The Adversary - a while ago for review and really enjoyed it.  The Shadow Walker is a different beast though, and I found it very hard going at points.  Maybe it's the difference between a debut and the second book in a series, but it was an interesting counterpoint ot read them out of order and try and work out if I'd read the first book first, would I have ever go to the second.  (Probably yes as I do try to cut first books a lot more slack than I would a second).  But anyway, on the strength of the second book I'd ordered the third - now all I have to do is find the time to read it!

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BOOK INFORMATION
ISBN
9781847244192
Year of Publication
Book Number (in series)
3
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Ulaan Bataar bakes in the heat of an unseasonably hot summer as it prepares to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Mongol Empire. But the city is facing a series of unexpected crises - an apparent suicide bomber shot down by police in Suuk Bataar Square, a dead body in the City Museum re-enacting an incident from ancient Mongolian history, an explosion at a political rally, and yet another body found murdered nearby. For Doripalam, now boss of the Serious Crime Team, the crises are growing increasingly personal. As he struggles to keep control of his own personal and professional life, one of his own team is arrested.Solongo, Doripalam's wife is facing her own challenges and finds herself entangled with murder and with the fugitive officer. Worst of all, Nergui, now an influential figure in the Ministry of Security, appears to be pursuing an agenda all of his own. The roots of all this trouble lie in the past - in the history of the Mongol nation, as well as in the more recent legacies of the communist state. As the sun beats down, a chilling figure emerges - a figure from Nergui's past, an outcast, who has returned to exact revenge, both on Nergui himself and on the nation that rejected him.

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Submitted by Karen on Tue, 07/04/2009 - 07:15 pm