Dark Continent

This impressive series kickoff from British author Sherez, A Dark Redemption introduces Det. Insp. Jack Carrigan, a Scotland Yard veteran regarded as an oddball for his obsessive devotion to his work. Years earlier, after graduating from college, Carrigan and two friends took a vacation in Uganda that ended in tragedy. The shadows from that traumatic experience weigh more heavily on Carrigan after the savage murder of Grace Okello, a student of East African history, in her London flat. The victim was studying African warlords who have used revolutionary politics as a mask for their sadistic desire for power, and it appears her research could have been a threat to one of them. The action builds to a jaw-dropping resolution. Readers will want to see more of this convincingly flawed hero.  PW

United Nations dirty work?

Yael Azoulay is a young, accomplished woman working for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. She cuts deals around the world with ease, until she deals with a Hutu warlord wanted for genocide. Unknown to her is a conspiracy involving rouge U.N officials working in tandem with a mining company to create unrest in the Congo region, hence gaining control of a valuable mineral. Mined by children. An international thriller, The Geneva Option, by Adam Lebor, is action packed. If just one tenth of this stuff is true, it's shocking! A fast and thrilling read. ML