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"With a single-minded dedication, Hurley has been producing one of the most capable and efficient procedural series to appear in the British Isles. And Borrowed Light . . . is one of the most solid entries . . . immensely readable." —Good Book Guide
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.Book Description
A car accident during a holiday in the Middle East lands Faraday in a hospital packed with the maimed from Gaza, where he embarks on a wild scheme to adopt a horribly burned Palestinian girl. Back in England crime lord Bazza McKenzie is watching his empire fall apart under the pressures of the biggest recession in 70 years. Desperate times call for desperate measures and soon ex-cop Winter is in the thick of it as Bazza runs out of options.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Still In Shock,
By Douglas Tessier (Kingston, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Borrowed Light (Hardcover)
Typical entertaining Bazza and Winter - and never a dull moment; but this is a Joe Faraday story all the way. Graham Hurley pulls you into the impossible emotional angst and in the middle of a complicated crime is a much more important struggle. Can't give away any details, but I sat in silence for about 10 minutes after I finished the book - and later read the last 50 pages again to make sure I had not been dreaming. I hardly ever re-read books, but this made me want to start over at Turnstone and read the whole series again.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
i'm torn',
By bluenoser - Published on Amazon.com
obviously the previous reviewer wrote their review esp the last comment before reading the end of borrowed light. agree that the plotting and characterizations were excellent and perhaps hurleys best............. but all that excellent work for that ending ????????? .
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fabulous but flawed...,
By Christine Hoenisch - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Borrowed Light (Hardcover)
I have been a big fan of Graham Hurley but the final few pages of this book made me want to throw it against the wall. The story builds and builds - as usual, the Winter storyline being the most captivating by far - and as it drew near its end I figured, aha, we are going to be left hanging and the story will pick up in the next installment. But no. It gets clumsily wrapped up in a short, horrible afterward section. You simply cannot change pace on a reader like that. You cannot take an intricate, well-thought out and delivered plot and then do it a complete disservice by tidily wrapping it up in a few pages...let alone with that absolutely implausible ending. Utterly disappointing.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Say it ain't so,
By DAN OMEARA - Published on Amazon.com
I have been a fan of Graham Hurley's novels from even before he started with the Joe Faraday series. I have read each of the Faraday books almost as soon as they are published and rate Hurley better than Ian Rankin, up there with Alan Furst. I have thoroughly enjoyed his unblinking take on the underbelly of Portsmouth and of Britain. At his best, Hurley's police procedurals provide a riveting and highly enthralling portrait of a society tearing itself apart. So, I expected the same of Borrowed Light. Sad to say, it didn't deliver. The initial plot hook about Faraday seems far too belaboured, and while the Paul Winter character continues to be the most interesting thing about these books, here Hurley seems to have lost the plot. The ending, quite frankly, makes no sense at all -- not in the sense of what Hurley does to two of his key characters, but the way in which he does it. This reads as if the author was in a hurry to finish the book and couldn't come up with anything credible, so resorted to the oldest of authorial tricks. Pity...
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