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Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence (crime blog)
One of my outstanding books of 2008 - Lewis's BAD TRAFFIC is an absolutely exceptional novel which had me mesmerised.
Waterstones Books Quarterly. No 69
A smart-paced, thoroughly entertaining crime-thriller, laced with black humour.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unusual, gripping and at times very funny.,
By Phoenicopter (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bad Traffic (Paperback)
Bravo to Lewis for combining a unique and exciting thriller with the brutal and topical issue of people trafficking. His delightfully venal anti-hero and guileless side kick find themselves pitched against both convincing and vicious murderers but also the background of a Britain made utterly alien and sinister by being seen through the eyes of the protagonist: a non English speaking Chinese detective,seeking a missing daughter on his first time out of his own country. Memorable.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chinese takeaway,
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This review is from: Bad Traffic (Paperback)
Inspector Jian, who speaks no English, comes to Britain to find the daughter who has vanished from her University. Ding Ming and his wife Little Ye are illegal immigrants in the hands of ruthless people traffickers. He speaks some English. The books is an exciting and original tale of how the two men are unlikely partners trying to rescue their women. The writing is taut and exciting, and the plot twists and turns. The villains aroused hate and disgust, while the two heroes alternately alarmed and amused me. I read the whole book in just two sessions, pausing only for sleep.
The cover of the paperback features praise from Elmore Leonard, and if Leonard likes it there can really be nothing more to say. Buy this book, and every other Simon Lewis as it appears; reading this novel was over all too soon, and I cannot wait to get the next one.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A thriller with a difference,
By Mr Gladstone (East Sussex) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bad Traffic (Paperback)
Every detective writer wants to create a hero with issues but who we still manage to like, but Simon Lewis really sets himself up with a challenge; Jian, a Chinese answer to Life on Mars' Gene Hunt, is a corrupt, brutal, middle-aged cop who helps enforce human rights abuses in China. Nice! He is in the UK to find his missing daughter, and teams up with Ding Ming, newly arrived in the back of a truck, who is trying to find his wife.
The story unfolds brilliantly from the first page. It is really fast-paced and quite funny, genuinely perplexing as you consider their predicament, and yet is resolved (reasonably) believably. Most of all, the characters are likeable and we see different scenarios, including English culture, from a variety of viewpoints. There are a couple of bum notes, especially part of the plot that recalls a dreadful tragedy with Chinese immigrants in a tomato lorry, which is in bad taste and makes the story bleaker that it seems intended to be (hence 4 stars instead of 5), and the middle part of the book could do with at least 50 pages trimmed. But overall it is a distinct cut above many of the other page-turner thrillers out there, tackling real issues with wit and panache.
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