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WheatShaft
For almost a decade, Matt Kozar had been coasting as a general reporter with the New York Tribune … longing but never managing to break the big story … until now.
While on a routine assignment in Central Park, the launch of Feed the Starving – a glitzy, high-powered campaign to raise awareness of a devastating famine plaguing the Horn of Africa, Kozar soon becomes entangled in a web of incredible greed and corruption, and a devious plot to defraud the U.S. government of hundreds of millions of dollars in food aid destined for millions of starving children, women and men.
In this fast-paced, hard-hitting political thriller, Kozar flies to Eritrea where he witnesses blatant corruption in the distribution of international food aid. But there is something far more sinister going on, and as he continues to dig, he quickly finds himself pitted against a rogue’s gallery of extremely dangerous a powerful evangelical minister, a repugnant US Republican senator, the unscrupulous head of the UN International Food Fund and a pair of ruthless Russian oligarchs – who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their illegal enterprise from being exposed.
While on a routine assignment in Central Park, the launch of Feed the Starving – a glitzy, high-powered campaign to raise awareness of a devastating famine plaguing the Horn of Africa, Kozar soon becomes entangled in a web of incredible greed and corruption, and a devious plot to defraud the U.S. government of hundreds of millions of dollars in food aid destined for millions of starving children, women and men.
In this fast-paced, hard-hitting political thriller, Kozar flies to Eritrea where he witnesses blatant corruption in the distribution of international food aid. But there is something far more sinister going on, and as he continues to dig, he quickly finds himself pitted against a rogue’s gallery of extremely dangerous a powerful evangelical minister, a repugnant US Republican senator, the unscrupulous head of the UN International Food Fund and a pair of ruthless Russian oligarchs – who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their illegal enterprise from being exposed.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 14, 2021
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Victor Malarek
17 books28 followersVictor Gregory Malarek is a Canadian journalist and author. Currently, he is a senior reporter for CTV Television's W-FIVE.
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January 14, 2022
If you're looking for a page turner..... this one will deprive you of sleep! 🤣🤣🤣
You know you’ve read a great book when a week later you’re still missing the main character and want to read more! This December I got back into reading fiction after a decade-long hiatus and blasted three John Grisham’s. Then I cracked the spine of Victor Malarek's latest mystery thriller – Wheat$haft.
I can’t abide by books that make you slog through chapter after chapter before anything happens, so after reading Grisham, I had high expectations. Wow, Wheat$haft sure did not disappoint. It gripped me from the first page. This mystery thriller is unquestionably a page turner and you’ll love the intensity. With every chapter Malarek just keeps ramping and twisting and turning up the tension. Try to put it down! We need a series with protagonist, investigative journalist Matt Kozar, because I just love this guy.
Many of you know Malarek as a gritty investigative journalist from the Globe and Mail, W5, and The Fifth Estate. He’s written many award-winning non-fiction books, many of which I've read, on critical stories he’s broken over his many decades of reporting. I couldn’t help but think of his work while following Kozar as he travels to Ethiopia to investigate world food aid corruption. The journey is intense. There were a good number of scenes that really felt so darn real that I was certain Malarek had to have inserted many of his own experiences into the plot. It’s that sense of realism that makes the book so memorable and makes me hungry for more. Highly recommend.
You know you’ve read a great book when a week later you’re still missing the main character and want to read more! This December I got back into reading fiction after a decade-long hiatus and blasted three John Grisham’s. Then I cracked the spine of Victor Malarek's latest mystery thriller – Wheat$haft.
I can’t abide by books that make you slog through chapter after chapter before anything happens, so after reading Grisham, I had high expectations. Wow, Wheat$haft sure did not disappoint. It gripped me from the first page. This mystery thriller is unquestionably a page turner and you’ll love the intensity. With every chapter Malarek just keeps ramping and twisting and turning up the tension. Try to put it down! We need a series with protagonist, investigative journalist Matt Kozar, because I just love this guy.
Many of you know Malarek as a gritty investigative journalist from the Globe and Mail, W5, and The Fifth Estate. He’s written many award-winning non-fiction books, many of which I've read, on critical stories he’s broken over his many decades of reporting. I couldn’t help but think of his work while following Kozar as he travels to Ethiopia to investigate world food aid corruption. The journey is intense. There were a good number of scenes that really felt so darn real that I was certain Malarek had to have inserted many of his own experiences into the plot. It’s that sense of realism that makes the book so memorable and makes me hungry for more. Highly recommend.
September 21, 2022
Excellent read. Could not put it down. Reality of today is virtually reflected here.
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