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Capital Punishment by Robert Wilson. A Charles Boxer Thriller.
Review summary: This thriller has an intriguing premise and unfolds quite nicely for about the first two thirds of the book. There are a few sidetrips along the way, nothing too distracting (or even all that interesting), but somewhere about the point where the plot should be drawing to a close it unnecessarily veers off into another direction entirely. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Capital Punishment
Robert Wilson
A Charles Boxer Thriller
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 2013)
Publisher synopsis: Alyshia D'Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Frank D'Cruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. After a boozy evening out, she gets in the wrong cab home.
Enter Charles Boxer. Ex-army, ex-police, he has found his niche in private security. His specialty: kidnap and recovery. When D'Cruz hires Boxer to find Alyshia, Boxer knows Frank's crooked business empire has made him plenty of enemies. Despite the vast D'Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don't want cash, instead favoring a cruel and lethal game. But the British government doesn't want its big new investor to lose his daughter in the heart of the capital. The MI6 office in India follows Boxer's lead, and soon it seems more lives than Alyshia's are at stake as the trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil.
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