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Capital Punishment
Written by Robert Wilson
Narrated by Steven Pacey
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Alyshia D'Cruz has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night she takes the wrong cab home.
Charles Boxer, expert in high-stakes kidnap resolution, teams up with his ex-partner, investigative cop Mercy Danquah, who's battling with their rebellious teenage daughter.
Alyshia's father hires Boxer, who knows all about the tycoon's colourful career, which has made him plenty of enemies. But despite the vast D'Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don't want cash, instead favouring a cruel and lethal game. . . To save Alyshia, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics, Indian mobsters and London's homegrown crimelords.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a journey to the dark side of people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.
Read by Steven Pacey
(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group
Charles Boxer, expert in high-stakes kidnap resolution, teams up with his ex-partner, investigative cop Mercy Danquah, who's battling with their rebellious teenage daughter.
Alyshia's father hires Boxer, who knows all about the tycoon's colourful career, which has made him plenty of enemies. But despite the vast D'Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don't want cash, instead favouring a cruel and lethal game. . . To save Alyshia, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics, Indian mobsters and London's homegrown crimelords.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a journey to the dark side of people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.
Read by Steven Pacey
(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising and trading in Africa. He has travelled in Asia and Africa and has lived in Greece and West Africa. He is married and writes from an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.
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Reviews for Capital Punishment
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5“Capital Punishment†is a remarkable book by a writer that can write and that will drill holes in your central nervous system.
It’s not that the story is terrifying – it’s not whatsoever. It’s just that it is too real not to call forth the indefinite doubts we all try to ignore about our own sanity.
If you are a crime reader of the commercial paperback variety, “Capital Punishment†is not for you.
This will test your mettle and sophisticate your reading. And there’s nothing more I care to tell you.
I’m daring you to read this book.
Wilson’s writing makes the usual fare look like pale and poor in comparison.
Only the ending left something to be desired, but that's the nature of the beast... - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Robert Wilson has written several of my favorite 'thrillers' and I look forward to anything new from him. This one, the first in what I understand is a new series, was a real challenge. The plot was multi-layered, almost to a fault. A kidnapping, complicated romantic relationships, terrorist groups, hoodlums of various nationalities.... it was a bit much but in the end it was worth the extra concentration required to make it through. It's definitely not one of those 'grab it off the rack and knock it out in a couple hours' novels.
Compared to his previous work, I didn't think the characters were well-developed and dialogue didn't ring very true to me, but the story hung together and a satisfactory conclusion was reached. The ending was a bit abrupt after the layer upon layer of plot it took to reach it, but I expect future books in this series to perhaps follow up on some of the threads.
All-in-all, a worthwhile effort but not Wilson's best. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a good thriller. The characters are well developed and are very real.
The first half is very tightly written and moves the story along at a good pace. The second half of the book introduces several sub-plots, which overwhelm the main plot. At one point, there were so many things happening and so many characters involved it became quite confusing. All the loose ends are tied up at the end, so if you were able to keep track of what was happening to whom, nothing is left dangling. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I am rather surprised that I didn't like this book more. The story is founded on a strong plot building upon a promising start with the kidnap of Alyisha d'Cruz as she makes her way home after a boisterous evening out with her colleagues. The pickup seems to have been very well-planned and we gradually learn that Alyisha is the daughter of an Indian billionaire who is suspected of close connections with the Indian mafia that has sprung up in the hinterland of the burgeoning international success of the Bollywood industry.Charles Boxer, former soldier and homicide detective who has established a reputation as a hostage negotiator is called in to intercede, and from that point the novel plummets into egregious implausibility.All in all, rather a feeble story despite a very promising start.