Falling from the Sky

by Tim Goodwin

It is 1958, and the icy wastes of northern Greenland are in the front line of the cold war when a B-52 bomber goes missing. Over 40 years later a routine flight to Canada vanishes without warning or explanation and Detective Sergeant Tomas Larsen is gradually led into a complex web of plotting, betrayal and murder. But what links a severed finger, a fancy dress party, a university natural history research team, a retired Swedish engineer and the hippy settlement of Christiania? Gradually Larsen's investigations uncover fragments of a dark secret from the distant past. Now, as the Arctic winter closes in, he finds himself in a terrifying race against unknown and merciless adversaries. Death is but a step away.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2002

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Varying between the icy northeast of Greenland, the capital Nuuk and Denmark, this police-procedural is strong on place and the plot is good but there are some issues with the prose and the consistency. The author is unconvincing when describing action and there are a few coincidences and inexplicable out-of-character incidents that let down the story of a B52 lost in 1958 and the death and destruction that follow those unknowingly connected with its possible rediscovery with a climax on the ice (before a telling epilogue). Engaging if flawed