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Aphrodite

door Russell Andrews

Reeksen: Justin Westwood (1)

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Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate not accidental. As he retraces the woman's movements in the hours before her death he learns she's been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people's home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town. As he attempts to unravel the puzzle he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - though if he'd known what was in store he'd have stuck to handing out parking tickets. A thriller of such tension and action that it should come with its own oxygen supply.… (meer)
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An elderly man dies and the reporter who wrote his obituary is killed. Neither looks like homicide until Justin Westwood started looking. Westwood is a young but worn out cop just passing the time in a crime free Long Island berg. Two deaths seem to spawn more and the tale unfolds. Andrews tells a compelling story and this is as good as his others. ( )
  susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |
Justin Westwood, a policeman for East End Harbor NY, has been trying to escape his tragic past by drinking too much Scotch at night and spending his days on the force by writing tickets for traffic violations in this small Long Island town. Justin had once been a well-respected homicide detective in Providence but when he got too involved in a Mafia case he watched his beautiful daughter be gunned down in front of him and a year later his wife committed suicide. Now Justin is barely going through the motions until he investigates the death of a young female reporter. What looks like an accidental death seems suspicious to Justin and he literally stumbles upon a witness to the murder. Justin and the witness Deena begin to uncover a far reaching conspiracy involving pharmaceutical companies and the government known as "Aphrodite".

As Justin and Deena delve deeper into the Aphrodite project they realize that anyone who knows about the project and speaks to an outsider will be disposed of and now the two of them are the killers number one targets. Having no one to trust, including the police and the FBI, except one another the pair are relentless in their search for Aphrodite's formula while being chased by several different killers intent on keeping the secret.

The suspense in this book was stellar and the characters were quite likeable, though it seemed out of character for Justin to be so violent towards the end of the book. I found the ''Aphrodite" secret to be a tad unbelievable but it was a good story nonetheless.
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  Ellen_R | Jan 15, 2016 |
There are so many great thrillers available and although this one was fast paced, not a favorite for me. ( )
  hfineisen | Oct 8, 2012 |
More than fantasic, superb reading, so convincing that I began to wonder, could this story be true??????? A thriller that keeps you turning pages wanting to find out what will happen next, will the innocent survive? Read it and find out for yourself! ( )
  LadyBlossom | Aug 22, 2008 |
This was a fairly decent thriller. Nothing fantastic about it but it was a good solid read, which didn't take long to finish. Weighs in at about 450 pages.

Set in America, the main character is former hot shot detective who went to hide out in a sleepy town after a tragedy killed his wife and daughter. He's been giving our parking tickets for years, is seriously unfit and likes a few drinks every night. Now he's got a multiple murder case, and the shadowy perpetrators are now looking to silence him as well... ( )
  nakmeister | Aug 29, 2006 |
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Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate not accidental. As he retraces the woman's movements in the hours before her death he learns she's been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people's home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town. As he attempts to unravel the puzzle he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - though if he'd known what was in store he'd have stuck to handing out parking tickets. A thriller of such tension and action that it should come with its own oxygen supply.

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