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This is one of the reasons I am proud to be a New Zealander. There is a lot of home grown talent on this small Island.
Five minutes alone is what the friends or relatives of victims want to have with the offender. Of course by law that cannot happen...or can it. Someone is doing just that, and Theodore Tate is on the case to hunt this person down. Things start to go wrong when innocent people die, and as I neared the end of the book each page was turned with trepidation as the only possible outco ...more
Five minutes alone is what the friends or relatives of victims want to have with the offender. Of course by law that cannot happen...or can it. Someone is doing just that, and Theodore Tate is on the case to hunt this person down. Things start to go wrong when innocent people die, and as I neared the end of the book each page was turned with trepidation as the only possible outco ...more
New Zealand's internationally bestselling Crown Prince of Crime Fiction is at it again with another pulsating, violent thriller set in his near-dystopian version of Christchurch. Wonderfully complex protagonist Theo Tate has been resurrected, as a cop and a human being, after recovering from a coma. The death penalty has been reinstated, and now someone is disposing of society’s worst offenders, giving the victims of their crimes a chance for the proverbial ‘five minutes alone’ that so many want
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Classic cop novel. Set in Christchurch
New Zealand. But could have been anywhere as the story is very universal.
New Zealand. But could have been anywhere as the story is very universal.
Jan 01, 2015
Alex Buckley
marked it as to-read
Jul 23, 2016
Kirsten McKenzie
marked it as to-read
