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Review of 'Dead Centre' by Owen Jones

When a suicide bomber detonates his vest


in Scheherazade's, an up-maret
department store in !a"hdad, the first
reaction of the #ra$i authorities is to treat it
as a norma% act of terrorism and hand it
over to Captain &%%awi of the #ra$i 'ationa%
(o%ice)
*owever, whi%e routine%y inspectin" the
video foota"e from the store's security
cameras, a sharp-eyed, youn" po%ice officer notices that the
suicide bomber is not a%% that he maes himse%f out to be and
this %eads the investi"ation down a path that no-one had ever
considered possib%e before)
+he conse$uences of this new form of terrorism are
horrific)
+hen, over a short space of time, si, other crimes invo%vin"
suicide bombers occur that are ine,p%icab%e un%ess thy are
seen in the same %i"ht as the !a"hdad bombin") +his %eads
the po%ice forces of si, other cities- .arsei%%e, /ssen, !e%fast,
'ew 0or, 1ondon and 1os !o%iches wor to"ether under the
umbre%%a of #nterpo% to put an end to this new crimina% "an")
& twist comes when the po%ice rea%ise that there are severa%
motives for the suicide bombin"s, but because the
perpetrators are unpredictab%e, it maes apprehendin" them
impossib%e)
+heir on%y viab%e tactic is to concentrate on the source of
the bombers themse%ves, a%thou"h they obvious%y a%% die in the
raids) +he case starts to %oo hope%ess)
Despite numerous breas-throu"h, the combined po%ice
forces, %oose%y headed by Captain &%%awi, fai% to mae any
serious headway, so they as the Chinese "overnment for the
assistance of their #nternet e,perts, because they are wide%y
be%ieved to be the best in the wor%d)
+he Chinese, with some he%p from the 1atvian and
&r"entine authorities, trace the "an"'s probab%e head$uarters
to 'West /n"%and', but when their !ritish counterparts e,amine
the data, they pinpoint it to West Wa%es)
+he S&S is ca%%ed in from *ereford, when it is rea%ised that
e,-mi%itary personne% are probab%y invo%ved in the bombin"s
because of the sty%e, the p%annin" and the precision of the
attacs) +he S&S soon narrow their operations down to a
%one%y farmhouse %ocated outside St) David's in (embroe,
southwest Wa%es)
+his sets the scene for the fina% batt%e to stamp out the
%eadership of the "an")
'Dead Centre' is a fast-paced action thri%%er that wi%% eep
you "uessin" unti% the end) +he story taes p%ace in nine
countries and dozens of cities)
*owever, as the sayin" "oes, when the S&S are ca%%ed in,
you now it's "ettin" serious2
Dead Centre the %atest action nove% by the author Owen
Jones

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