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Jihadi: A Love Story

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Written by Yusuf Toropov — The word ‘jihadi’ conjures up a very distinct image in the minds of most westerners: masked men in the desert clutching AK-47s, standing over their victims. It’s a preconception that’s far removed from the two so-called jihadis involved in this self-proclaimed love story. The word…
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Retribution by Steffen Jacobsen

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Translated by Charlotte Barslund — Denmark is in a state of shock. A year after Europe’s gravest terrorist atrocity, the security forces, police and intelligence agencies have yet to bring anyone to justice. The young Arab man, who atomised himself and murdered more than 1,000 holidaymakers when he…
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Real Tigers by Mick Herron

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With Nobody Walks, Mick Herron did something a little different to his previous efforts, though still within the espionage genre, albeit tangentially. Now he returns to the fictional world of his Slough House series and its slow horses. You may recall that Slough House is…
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La Frontera by Sam Hawken

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Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juarez and Tequila Sunset set the ball rolling for this popular author who takes a look at the perils of life on both sides of the border between Mexico and Texas. We last reviewed Missing in 2014, but we missed the 2013…
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Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott

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Lies. Even a teeny weeny white one can snowball into something of epic proportions if you’re not careful. But if everyone told the truth, where would crime fiction readers be? Or defence solicitors for that matter? Maggie Taylor is one of the latter, newly arrived…
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