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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Author(s): Robert Wilson

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

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Beautiful Alyshia D’Cruz has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night she takes the wrong cab home.

Charles Boxer, expert in high-stakes kidnap resolution, teams up with his ex-partner, investigative cop Mercy Danquah, who’s battling with their rebellious teenage daughter.

Alyshia’s father hires Boxer, who knows all about the tycoon’s colourful career, which has made him plenty of enemies. But despite the vast D’Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don’t want cash, instead favouring a cruel and lethal game…To save Alyshia, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics, Indian mobsters and London’s homegrown crimelords.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a journey to the dark side of people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.

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Like most of Wilson’s novels, this one occupies the shadow territory between the crime novel and the intelligent thriller… it’s dark and powerful stuff. And the ending has a kick like a horse. (SPECTATOR)

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