Review: Trading with the death of Simon Kernick
Author: Simon Kernick
Original title: The Business of Dying
Year: 2008
Publisher: Good Books Ltd
Number of pages: 351
Summary
The main character named Dennis Milne. He is a cop with an unusual moonlighting: punishing criminals. The book begins with Milne is out on a mission to kill three corrupted men. Something, however, goes awry! The alleged drug dealers turned out instead to be three completely innocent people. There is also a witness to the deed.
The next day found the 18-year-old Miriam Fox murdered. She has had her throat slashed and Milne has been commissioned to conduct the investigation. This leads to a desperate struggle for Milne: not only did he have to try to find the one who murdered Fox, he must also fight tooth and nail to keep away the law catches. While the investigation of Fox's death reveals a horror full truth of each network is slowly tightened around Milne. Soon, he sees only one way out: Escape.
My thoughts
As usual, I've read Kernicks books out of order. I started with a good day to die and then going about the Kernicks debut book trade in death . The books are similar both in style and action, but I must admit that I think this book is a bit better than the sequel. The pace is fast, the dialogue is crisp and the story contains a lot of social criticism against drugs and prostitution.
As in the sequel, there are certain things that have no credibility: I still have not received a convincing explanation of why a seemingly honest policeman suddenly takes an additional blow as a mass murderer. The only explanation you get is that he only kills those who deserve it. It is a rather vague explanation for me to buy it outright. Even in this book he fights against several men at once and as the hero he is, he won this battle. I'll buy it better this time, but just because he gets many more wounds than he did in the sequel.
There is one thing that annoys me a lot: in the book's sequel will be followed by Milnes hunt for the man who killed his partner Asif Malik. I would have expected to find out more about the event in the sale of death. Oh what I was wrong: not a single word that he has been murdered. In fact, he is very much alive in all games in which he participates. The fair's name should be something that I have missed, because I can not believe that Kernick, or any other author, would make such a fatal mistake, right?
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