This novel is the latest in the acclaimed DCI Banks series that is now over 30 years old. Like almost all writers of European crime fiction for the last quarter-of-a-century, the author delves into the immigration issues that have bedeviled the EU. The victim in this one is a young Syrian boy who somehow got to England, but ran into the wrong people, at the wrong time, in the wrong place. More interesting though, is the ongoing story of a Moldovan woman who appeared in the last Banks novel, and whose story will be continued in the next one. Trafficked out of Moldova by some really bad guys from the Balkans, Zelda has managed to escape, survive and make a bit of a life with one of Banks' friends. She has a unique skill and is a 'super recognizer', who can remember every face she has ever seen and who occasionally works for the British government. She has seen those traffickers and now knows that they are in the UK. It's an interesting plot line and I don't believe the author has carried a story forward in the past. Indeed, it's interesting enough that I'm trying to figure out when the next book will be published.
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