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MAROC: A Snowdonia Thriller
Peter Maroc is ex SAS. Three years ago, his wife banished him from their home. Her father, Max Southwell, a retired college professor, still resents him for the neglect of his daughter.
He returns from Germany to his home village in Snowdonia to find his father-in-law has been left to die by his grasping sons. Meanwhile, his estranged medic wife is trapped in an African hospital and is powerless to help. Maroc makes it his mission to return Max Southwell to health and regain his wife’s affections.
When a kidnapping goes wrong, Maroc is left suffering almost total amnesia. His wife’s return from Africa forces him to fight for his family’s survival against a ruthless enemy.
The action switches between the beautiful mountains of Snowdonia, the underbelly of Manchester’s crime scene, and Albania’s bandit country.
He returns from Germany to his home village in Snowdonia to find his father-in-law has been left to die by his grasping sons. Meanwhile, his estranged medic wife is trapped in an African hospital and is powerless to help. Maroc makes it his mission to return Max Southwell to health and regain his wife’s affections.
When a kidnapping goes wrong, Maroc is left suffering almost total amnesia. His wife’s return from Africa forces him to fight for his family’s survival against a ruthless enemy.
The action switches between the beautiful mountains of Snowdonia, the underbelly of Manchester’s crime scene, and Albania’s bandit country.
435 pages, Paperback
Published May 22, 2022
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Keith Williams
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July 19, 2024
With everything so controlled in the UK by myriad regulations I wondered how a thriller with abundant criminal activity set in Wales could pull it off for authenticity. However, most of the novel is believable though it sometimes descends into bathos, and predictability creeps in. A really good editing is needed to weed out problems of layout and other mistakes.
Extreme action at the start of “Maroc” had me thinking that I was in for a predictable thriller but I found the thought less relevant as I read on. There is an originality in undermining conventional “wisdom”, the sort perpetrated by the National Health Service, the National Institute for Care Excellence, the GP Brits, and that is what Keith Williams seems to be doing in getting his central character involved in enticing his father-in-law back to life. Too much time is spent in the UK on tormenting old people near to death but “Maroc” presents a vision that is slightly different. Medical carers are engineering a more rapid decline because of greedy in-laws and the victim or the cared-for is not ready for terminal care but is getting it whether he likes it or not! That lack of freedom links up with tormenting old people with unnecessary procedures but if you don’t get the connection, never mind.
I found this thriller strange but readable, the central character more believable than the many mini-JamesBonds who pop up all over the genre, and what I especially appreciated was the analysis of the good tough guys and the wish to save life rather than destroy it…a sort of anti capital punishment coming from the James Bonds themselves. This is absolutely unusual because thrillers, detective genres, revenge genres, are chock-a-block full of honourable murderers, a facet of the genre I find impossible to respect. So, “Maroc” pleased me.
What about the Welsh countryside, the fishing-trips (inevitable?) and the boozers? Well, even there Keith Williams convinced me they could be used fairly appropriately within the genre.
Mr. Williams’ plot was a bit hard to believe at certain moments, did not ring true – like the barmaid conveniently telling exactly what needed telling or Emily ready to disown (yet again) her husband who had laboured so successfully to bring her beloved father back to life.
However, everything considered, Mr. Williams has written a Snowdonia thriller without the allegedly justifiable murder and mayhem the genre seems to wallow in. Good for him.
Extreme action at the start of “Maroc” had me thinking that I was in for a predictable thriller but I found the thought less relevant as I read on. There is an originality in undermining conventional “wisdom”, the sort perpetrated by the National Health Service, the National Institute for Care Excellence, the GP Brits, and that is what Keith Williams seems to be doing in getting his central character involved in enticing his father-in-law back to life. Too much time is spent in the UK on tormenting old people near to death but “Maroc” presents a vision that is slightly different. Medical carers are engineering a more rapid decline because of greedy in-laws and the victim or the cared-for is not ready for terminal care but is getting it whether he likes it or not! That lack of freedom links up with tormenting old people with unnecessary procedures but if you don’t get the connection, never mind.
I found this thriller strange but readable, the central character more believable than the many mini-JamesBonds who pop up all over the genre, and what I especially appreciated was the analysis of the good tough guys and the wish to save life rather than destroy it…a sort of anti capital punishment coming from the James Bonds themselves. This is absolutely unusual because thrillers, detective genres, revenge genres, are chock-a-block full of honourable murderers, a facet of the genre I find impossible to respect. So, “Maroc” pleased me.
What about the Welsh countryside, the fishing-trips (inevitable?) and the boozers? Well, even there Keith Williams convinced me they could be used fairly appropriately within the genre.
Mr. Williams’ plot was a bit hard to believe at certain moments, did not ring true – like the barmaid conveniently telling exactly what needed telling or Emily ready to disown (yet again) her husband who had laboured so successfully to bring her beloved father back to life.
However, everything considered, Mr. Williams has written a Snowdonia thriller without the allegedly justifiable murder and mayhem the genre seems to wallow in. Good for him.
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