Dark Powers

by Raymond Haigh

Special agent Samantha Quest is taking on the most powerful men in the country when she frees a young girl from a secure children's unit. The sixteen year-old girl has used her mobile phone to video an incident which could prove disastrous for the government, especially if information of her affair with an older man also gets out. The girl's name is Annushka Dvoskin, and her father is a powerful Russian oligarch. Unknown to Samantha, his enemies dispatch a team of hitmen to murder her and her charge. As they flee from danger, Samantha uncovers the girl's secrets, while desperately searching for the phone. Using it as a bargaining tool may be their only hope for safety. In this novel of wealth and corruption, the great and the privileged will brush aside the law and do anything to protect their power. As the killers' race to find them intensifies, Samantha and Annushka must outwit and outrun them.

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Reviews

[Rachael · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book feels disjointed - the initial pages feel like a romance novel, before morphing into a crime thriller. The plot itself was interesting, although wrapped up far too neatly and swiftly for my liking.
There’s some weird formatting going on in this book (or at least my copy) - a couple of pages feel like they jump between character sub-plots without the usual formatting / chapter markers.
It also has a weird pagination error - p17-31 are repeated twice in the book, once in the correct location and once again between p208-209. I got so confused thinking it was deja vu.