- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st ed 1st printg edition (20 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002242826
- ISBN-13: 978-0002242820
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,512,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A new and even nastier political villain! wickedly captivating.' Daily Express 'I ended up sitting up till the early hours, and for the next few days scenes and people kept going around in my head. You can't ask for more.' Jeremy Paxman 'A characteristic Dobbs tale, with the authentic stink of corruption. The Touch of Innocents is pure entertainment.' Daily Telegraph 'Dobbs has done it again! he's created an MP of breathtaking immorality.' Today
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It is always the innocent who suffer to make the powerful rich
Paul Devereux
is one of the most powerful politicians in the country.
Isadora Dean
is the rising star of television news journalism.
Two exceptionally talented, successful people brought in to dangerous conflict.
Izzy cannot accept the death of her baby daughter Bella. Stubborn and at times irrational, her belief that her daughter is alive leads her to the sordid truth - an international black market where babies are sold for cash. Behind this horrific truth, Isadora detects the sinister hand of Devereux.
She is just one woman against the world.The search for her daughter will cost her everything, but as long as she believes that Bella is alive she will never surrender and Paul Devereux must use every means in his power to make sure she is silenced for good.
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Well, I liked the Buddha of Brewer Street.
I really liked the House of Cards series. (Though I thought the TV series, thanks to Ian Richardson was far better.)
But this? It's a stinker. A full-blooded stinker. In fact, although it's still February, I don't think I'll read a worse book this year. Sure Jeremy Paxman liked it according to the reviews, and another critic said it had scenes that would live long in the memory.
Yeah. Like you tend to recall the time you got drunk and hungover for a very long time, because basically you didn't realise that life had anything as painful and - well horrible - up its sleeve.
In short, US reporter Izzie has a crash, thinks she's killed her baby daughter, and based on a sort of vision she has and the babblings of her other little child decides that her kid has been kidnapped. In the end - aw, you guessed, didn't you? - she gets the kid back. Sorry if I've spoiled it for you, but from Page 1 you can guess what's going to happen.
Lowlights include:
Daniel, a reporter for a local Wessex paper who is Irish - proved by the fact that he corrects someone who says 'youwon the war' by pointing out that it was the the English who won it - and is also a recovering drug addict, proved by the fact that he knows how and where to score and talk about drugs. He then dies, mercifully, by falling off a balcony. Less mercifully, he doesn't do it early on enough.
A couple of US media players who have little to do except be sexist.
A junky whore who is the daughter of the chief baddy, Devereux.
A coroner who is busted by the Vice Squad and put out of harm's way because they found him tied up and covered with liqueurs (how come they're so horrified by that?).
A child of around 3 who at first says little; what he does say is limited and incomprehensible - yet as the book progresses he becomes more and more fluent.
A - oh, look, I can't go on with this. This is a book that makes Jeffrey Archer look like Nicholas Monserrat. If you see it in a charity bookshop, buy it (they need the money after all) and then hang it up for use in the smallest room in the house
I really liked the House of Cards series. (Though I thought the TV series, thanks to Ian Richardson was far better.)
But this? It's a stinker. A full-blooded stinker. In fact, although it's still February, I don't think I'll read a worse book this year. Sure Jeremy Paxman liked it according to the reviews, and another critic said it had scenes that would live long in the memory.
Yeah. Like you tend to recall the time you got drunk and hungover for a very long time, because basically you didn't realise that life had anything as painful and - well horrible - up its sleeve.
In short, US reporter Izzie has a crash, thinks she's killed her baby daughter, and based on a sort of vision she has and the babblings of her other little child decides that her kid has been kidnapped. In the end - aw, you guessed, didn't you? - she gets the kid back. Sorry if I've spoiled it for you, but from Page 1 you can guess what's going to happen.
Lowlights include:
Daniel, a reporter for a local Wessex paper who is Irish - proved by the fact that he corrects someone who says 'youwon the war' by pointing out that it was the the English who won it - and is also a recovering drug addict, proved by the fact that he knows how and where to score and talk about drugs. He then dies, mercifully, by falling off a balcony. Less mercifully, he doesn't do it early on enough.
A couple of US media players who have little to do except be sexist.
A junky whore who is the daughter of the chief baddy, Devereux.
A coroner who is busted by the Vice Squad and put out of harm's way because they found him tied up and covered with liqueurs (how come they're so horrified by that?).
A child of around 3 who at first says little; what he does say is limited and incomprehensible - yet as the book progresses he becomes more and more fluent.
A - oh, look, I can't go on with this. This is a book that makes Jeffrey Archer look like Nicholas Monserrat. If you see it in a charity bookshop, buy it (they need the money after all) and then hang it up for use in the smallest room in the house
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