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Helsinki White (An Inspector Vaara Novel Book 3) (editie 2012)

door James Thompson (Auteur)

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Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind of their cash, dope, and illegal firearms. But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences. . . .Meanhile, Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite having no agenda besides xenophobia. When the country's leading immigrants' rights advocate is assassinated and her head sent by mail to the Finnish Somalia Network, the president assigns Kari to the murder. Cracking this case will involve the unsolved kidnapping of a billionaire's children, a Faustian bargain with a former French legionnaire--and Kate.… (meer)

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Lid:	FicusFan
Titel:	Helsinki White (An Inspector Vaara Novel Book 3)
Auteurs:	James Thompson (Auteur)
Info:	Berkley (2012), Edition: Reprint, 333 pages
Verzamelingen:	Jouw bibliotheek, Aan het lezen
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Trefwoorden:	fiction, mystery, Finland, Inspector Vaara series, ebook, Kindle, IP

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Nope.

This book lacks everything - setting, some character development, maybe just a bit of novelty- that made the first one passable, and reads like a cascade of pulp covers flashing by. (

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Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |

Let me start by saying how hugely disappointed I am in myself for not being able to finish this one. I really enjoyed the first two books in this series and I will definitely stick with this author on his next book. Back to Helsiniki White; it is soooooo dark, it is sooooo political, it is soooooooo foreign. All these things are my issues, not the issues of the writer. I just could not seem to get into the story, so, after near 50% on my kindle, I gave it up. (

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PamV | Mar 27, 2018 |

I have enjoyed this mystery series, set in Finland, since its very first installment. Each book has had something of an ominous ending, making me eager to read the next in the series as Kari Vaara continues to develop. This book, however, was a much darker read than any in this already fairly grim series. His career takes quite a turn, and as the plot builds, one thing leads to another, making Vaara a different man than the one I at least first grew to like in the series' debut, Snow Angels.

The ending was a bit more hopeful than some of the others, and I will definitely continue to read this series where the Finnish setting is perhaps even a larger character than Vaara himself. I just hope that the next one is a mystery with a bit less of a political focus... Race relations in Finland are certainly interesting, but the mystery behind this plot was not as well developed as the other two installments in the series. (

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Hanneri | Feb 21, 2014 |

I couldn't help myself in liking this rambling slightly mess of a novel. This book reads more like an epic backstory than an actual thriller. The conspiracies have conspiracies and the plot line likely doesn't hold up well in daylight. Vaara's main tool of deduction is brute force. But what Thompson does so well is draw unique characters. I absolutely love the charismatic ex-French Legionnaire bad guy. I like the way he recruited a mountainous thug that he busted, but understood his motivations, as part of his crew. Thompson has a weakness for over the top conclusions with too much gun play exposition; but, the characters and the human elements are a joy to spend 300 pages with. Definite good guilty pleasure. (

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RDHawk6886 | Jan 13, 2014 |

Darker and more layered in the morality of the protagonist than the previous 2 novels. Also Finland is a darker, more racist/anti-immigration country. As Thompson's been longer in the country the scales have definitely fallen from his eyes. (

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Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind of their cash, dope, and illegal firearms. But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences. . . .Meanhile, Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite having no agenda besides xenophobia. When the country's leading immigrants' rights advocate is assassinated and her head sent by mail to the Finnish Somalia Network, the president assigns Kari to the murder. Cracking this case will involve the unsolved kidnapping of a billionaire's children, a Faustian bargain with a former French legionnaire--and Kate.

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