Turn a Blind Eye (William Warwick Novels, 3)

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As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye. Jeffrey Archer is one of the world's favourite storytellers and has topped the bestseller lists around the world in a career spanning four decades. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019). What chance does oleaginous Watson have against Crown Prosecutor Sir Julian Warwick, William’s father, and his junior, William’s sister Grace, with William himself as star witness?

The partners deliver a few punchlines of their own in this fast-moving story that’s replete with twists and danger. And William’s wife Beth, now a mother to twins, renews an old acquaintance who appears to have turned over a new leaf, or has she? A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Anyway, the partners complement each other: Taylor is the more rational and level-headed, while Brodie blatantly disregards jurisdictional boundaries when he needs to.

Co-authors Nelson DeMille and his son Alex have created interesting characters, though Brodie might be the type that appears more in fiction than in the real world: About to be handcuffed by a pair of armed men, he “suddenly spun around and delivered a ball-busting kick, under the guy’s ballistic vest, and into his non-ballistic balls. S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Harry Vance slips out of his lover’s bed for a mysterious nighttime meeting. Characters you can really warm to, others you hate with a vengeance, good plots and twists in the tale (sorry! Jeffrey is married with two sons and three grandchildren, and lives in London, Cambridge and Majorca.Jeffrey is also an art collector and amateur auctioneer, and has raised more than GBP50m for different charities over the years.

Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. On foreign soil, “officially and legally” they cannot gather evidence, question witnesses, or make arrests. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man.But Summers develops a personal relationship with a WPC on William's team and the investigation hangs in the balance. Archer, who makes every page readable even when the events he’s recounting are least credible, provides a nice coda concerning one of those old masters. The complications that follow—WPC Nicola Bailey, assigned to watch over DS Jerry Summers, a suspected underworld contact, gets so close to her target that they end up in bed, and Faulkner survives reports of his death and cremation to attend his own funeral, the beneficiary of some plastic surgery so expert that the only attendee to give him a second glance is Booth Watson, QC—are both more shapeless and more flatly incredible. As his undercover officers draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go far higher than his initial assessment, and that more of his colleagues than he thought possible might be willing to turn a blind eye . His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income.