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'They call me the Headhunter...you may be familiar with my work.' It's Christmas and a machete-wielding predator with links to Kenya's most feared crime organisation is handing out severed heads as gifts. As The Headhunter's gruesome spree spreads to Mombasa, Inspector Daniel Jouma finds himself drawn once again into the island's toxic heart. Meanwhile, when an old friend becomes the killer's latest victim, fishing boat skipper Jake Moore decides it's personal - and sets out to avenge a grieving widow and her children. Two men. One target. Both set on a collision course with a conspiracy that threatens to turn Kenya into a tribal bloodbath. The stakes could not be higher. But can Jake and Jouma keep their heads - while all about them are losing theirs?
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Nick Brownlee is a former Fleet Street journalist who now runs his own freelance news agency. He is a member of the Crime Writer's Association and the author of several non-fiction books, the latest being a history of the Tour de France. He lives in Cumbria with his wife and daughter.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The thing i like about this chap is the adventure that he takes you on. The descrpitions of Kenya and the elements of witchraft beliefs are key to keeping your eyes glued to the pages. Fast and exciting as usual - now i am waiting for the next adventures of Jake and Inspector Jouma (they make a good team)...think this would make a good film
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As this book opens, it is Christmas morning in Mombasa, and a nine-year-old boy opens a box he finds under his tree, only to discover to his [and the reader's horror] that it contains the severed head of his stepfather. This is third of four decapitations discovered within several days of each other, each with seemingly no connection to the others, and each universally liked and respected and thought to have no enemies. The last of the four is the leading circuit judge of the Coast Province. The weapon used is determined to be the eponymous one of the title. The media, who delight in such things, dub the killer The Headhunter. Lest things become dull, soon a new and different series of attacks begins, this one being called by the media the work of The Shanzu Shmasher..
This is the third in the series which introduced readers to Mombasa Detective Inspector Daniel Jouma of the Coast Province CID. The diminutive [5' 5"] Jouma finds himself completely stumped; no commonality seems to exist among the victims in either series of attacks. He thinks "People were unknowable, their motives a mystery. After thirty years as a policeman he thought he'd understood that by now - but every day he discovered that in fact he didn't have a clue. He just bumbled along making assumptions until the truth came up and smacked him in the face."
The other protagonist is Jake Moore, 35-year-old ex-Scotland Yard cop who for the last five years has skippered and co-owned a game fishing boat. Having left England after having been shot and seriously wounded, he had come to Kenya, as he says, "for the quiet life," except that's not the way it turned out. At the conclusion of the second book in the series, "Burn," he barely survived an assassin's knife, and has now just been released from the hospital after spending "six weeks at death's door" and undergoing 16 hours of surgery, his heart having stopped four times in the process. Although both men become involved in the search for The Headhunter, they don't even get together until two-thirds of the way through the book. As Jake describes it, "Jouma and I run into each other occasionally. Normally all hell breaks loose when we do, so we try to keep out of each other's way as much as possible." And indeed, when they do get together this time, that is precisely what happens as they search for the machete-wielding serial killer.
And just when you think all is resolved and the author is done with you - rest assured that he is not! [The fourth book in the series, Snakepit, is due out from Piatkus in the UK in July of 2011, something to which this terrific author's fans, among whom I count myself, can look forward.] Recommended.
This is the third in the series which introduced readers to Mombasa Detective Inspector Daniel Jouma of the Coast Province CID. The diminutive [5' 5"] Jouma finds himself completely stumped; no commonality seems to exist among the victims in either series of attacks. He thinks "People were unknowable, their motives a mystery. After thirty years as a policeman he thought he'd understood that by now - but every day he discovered that in fact he didn't have a clue. He just bumbled along making assumptions until the truth came up and smacked him in the face."
The other protagonist is Jake Moore, 35-year-old ex-Scotland Yard cop who for the last five years has skippered and co-owned a game fishing boat. Having left England after having been shot and seriously wounded, he had come to Kenya, as he says, "for the quiet life," except that's not the way it turned out. At the conclusion of the second book in the series, "Burn," he barely survived an assassin's knife, and has now just been released from the hospital after spending "six weeks at death's door" and undergoing 16 hours of surgery, his heart having stopped four times in the process. Although both men become involved in the search for The Headhunter, they don't even get together until two-thirds of the way through the book. As Jake describes it, "Jouma and I run into each other occasionally. Normally all hell breaks loose when we do, so we try to keep out of each other's way as much as possible." And indeed, when they do get together this time, that is precisely what happens as they search for the machete-wielding serial killer.
And just when you think all is resolved and the author is done with you - rest assured that he is not! [The fourth book in the series, Snakepit, is due out from Piatkus in the UK in July of 2011, something to which this terrific author's fans, among whom I count myself, can look forward.] Recommended.
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