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The Canal
The year is 2048.
Kansas City Police Detective Marie Castaneda is assigned an investigation that will change her life forever. What looks like a run of the mill derelict's suicide is much more than that.
With her curiosity piqued by the odd circumstances surrounding the old man's final hours, the young police woman begins to investigate his past. What she unravels is a mystery that is sure to keep you turning pages.
Set 40 years into the future, The Canal reveals America as a nation that is literally coming undone. Marie Castaneda takes a big risk in order to save her life.
Kansas City Police Detective Marie Castaneda is assigned an investigation that will change her life forever. What looks like a run of the mill derelict's suicide is much more than that.
With her curiosity piqued by the odd circumstances surrounding the old man's final hours, the young police woman begins to investigate his past. What she unravels is a mystery that is sure to keep you turning pages.
Set 40 years into the future, The Canal reveals America as a nation that is literally coming undone. Marie Castaneda takes a big risk in order to save her life.
- GenresMystery
109 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 13, 2012
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July 14, 2012
This book is dedicated to the Leavenworth 10.
It's the second of this author's books I've read and I'm coming to realise he doesn't take the easy option in relation to subject matter. He's also not afraid to lay his beliefs on the table.
The canal is a short novella packed with uncompromising provocation. As is Summons to perdition, this book is an unsettling read. Like any good story it weaves several strands together. It's a detective story with a difference, set in a world that has largely become Islamic - Australia alone has rejected it's advance.
In the mid 21st century newly-promoted Detective Marie Casteneda investigates the suicide of an old man. She runs up against military brick walls and her own force's veto when endeavouring to ascertain why the old man killed himself. At some risk to herself she discovers rewritten histories, political correctness gone mad and a military unable and unwilling to protect its own.
The author's family is replete with servicemen of the military and police kind. He himself was a serving police officer for 20 years and it shows in the level of detail and ease with which he discusses police procedure.
This is another well-written good story from Work and for that reason I'm giving it 5 stars.
It's the second of this author's books I've read and I'm coming to realise he doesn't take the easy option in relation to subject matter. He's also not afraid to lay his beliefs on the table.
The canal is a short novella packed with uncompromising provocation. As is Summons to perdition, this book is an unsettling read. Like any good story it weaves several strands together. It's a detective story with a difference, set in a world that has largely become Islamic - Australia alone has rejected it's advance.
In the mid 21st century newly-promoted Detective Marie Casteneda investigates the suicide of an old man. She runs up against military brick walls and her own force's veto when endeavouring to ascertain why the old man killed himself. At some risk to herself she discovers rewritten histories, political correctness gone mad and a military unable and unwilling to protect its own.
The author's family is replete with servicemen of the military and police kind. He himself was a serving police officer for 20 years and it shows in the level of detail and ease with which he discusses police procedure.
This is another well-written good story from Work and for that reason I'm giving it 5 stars.
December 23, 2012
First of all, I love the illustration on the front of this book. What could a seemingly innocent canal have to do with anything? If you receive a deep sense of forboding from the cover, be assured it's thoroughly justified, and will persist throughout the book.
When Detective Marie Castaneda innocently looks into the past of an elderly suicide victim, she cannot possibly know what forces she will unleash just by doing her job. I don't believe in spoilers, so I will concentrate on the characters and the ambience.
The main characters are exquisitely drawn and totally believable, as the helplessness in the face of political correctness destroys lives as easily as a chaff cutter mowing stubble in a paddock. The parallel love affairs are so sensitively and joyfully portrayed, that I applauded where Marie - in essence - extracts revenge for Vaughan's life and I shed a few tears as I read the last few pages, because John Work has produced a plot containing a depth achieved by few authors.
His writing is straightforward. The imagery comes through events which sucked this reader in and made me so angry that I wanted to reach into the "pages" and tear out the throat of officialdom.
A keeper for sure.
When Detective Marie Castaneda innocently looks into the past of an elderly suicide victim, she cannot possibly know what forces she will unleash just by doing her job. I don't believe in spoilers, so I will concentrate on the characters and the ambience.
The main characters are exquisitely drawn and totally believable, as the helplessness in the face of political correctness destroys lives as easily as a chaff cutter mowing stubble in a paddock. The parallel love affairs are so sensitively and joyfully portrayed, that I applauded where Marie - in essence - extracts revenge for Vaughan's life and I shed a few tears as I read the last few pages, because John Work has produced a plot containing a depth achieved by few authors.
His writing is straightforward. The imagery comes through events which sucked this reader in and made me so angry that I wanted to reach into the "pages" and tear out the throat of officialdom.
A keeper for sure.
July 16, 2012
As I was reading this, it was easy to see the world in such a state. I at once felt my hackles rising. The U.S. government wants to keep hidden that which paints a certain extremist group in a negative light and goes to great lengths to protect that group much to the demise of its own citizens. Bravo to Australia for not falling for such an ideology.
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