The Wreckage by Michael Robotham, Sphere, $32.99.
He’s mastered the psychological thriller. Now, with his seventh novel, set amid the wreckage of the recent global financial meltdown, Robotham stretches the canvas to take in money, power and international conspiracy.
In Baghdad, prize-winning journalist Luca Terracini is risking his life to chase a story about the disappearance of tens of millions of dollars from Iraqi banks.
In London, our old friend ex-cop Vincent Ruiz is searching for a young woman on the run after she scammed, drugged and robbed him — but who, he realises, has made herself some far tougher enemies than the kindly Ruiz.
The bombs explode, the body count rises as Luca follows the money and Ruiz the runaway girl.
What lifts it above your standard action thriller is the care Robotham takes with his characters and his skill at threading the plots to reveal a scarifying degree of corruption at the highest level of finance and politics.
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