Cy autonomy and the cash to buy all the high tech gear Soon the unit is cleaning house robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind of their cash dope and illegal firearms But Kari's team is too good and their actions have unintended conseuences Meanwhile Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite havin.
helsinki mobile white book Helsinki White ePUBCy autonomy and the cash to buy all the high tech gear Soon the unit is cleaning house robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind of their cash dope and illegal firearms But Kari's team is too good and their actions have unintended conseuences Meanwhile Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite havin.
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBThere’s a great myth believed by nearly everyone that Finland is corruption free Police and politicians are scripture pure dedicated to the good of the nation beyond all things Foreigners even write about it in travel guides for tourists That’s Kari Vaara telling us about his country in the first pages of James Thompson’s new novel Helsinki White Shortly thereafter he goes on to say I run a heist gang I’m a police inspector shakedown artist strong arm specialist and enforcerThree months ago I was an honest copWhat a way to kick of
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBI crashed straight into this one from reading Snow Angels and Lucifer's Tears I'm about 70% in now and I'm really wondering what the I'm reading It's like a friend you know uite well who's brilliant company when he's sober who suddenly becomes unrecognisable when he's drunk violent; amoral; foul mouthed It's a shock The previous books were sharp focused sure This is chaos I seriously cannot recognise Kari the MC of the series in this book Sure he's had brain surgery for a benign tumour and the author is brilliantly showing the after effects of such invasive intrusion in the mind but still This is a novel on steroids Guns and knives described in great lurid detail violent deaths thrown in almost as an afterthought I FEEL L
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBSigh I didn't like itThe thing that made me come back to the Kari Vaara books was Kari Vaara himself He wasn't in this book not the Kari Vaara I likedSadly I think this wasn't a thriller at all It was a political book with an agenda Very very Americanized It's clearly aimed at American public A Finn like me just gaped at the interpretation of our country and its people Okay I know it's fiction but I was insulted by the picture painted of some thinly disguised politicians It just wasn't believableIt wasn't a book about the country where I live Nor about the Helsinki I love It was well Chicago New York whatever moved to Finland The things described in the book can very well happen over there set here they just sound ridiculous I found the picture of my country oversimplified and seen through malevolent eyes
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBFirst a recommendation for anyone new to Jim's books read the Inspector Vaara series in order Snow Angels Lucifer's Tears then Helsinki White And then hopefully a lot books to follow The characters grow and change a lot in each book Even if the book and the story would work a standalone each book will show you a different Finland A wild very exotic Lapland which was very exotic to
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBBook Info Genre MysteryNoirReading Level AdultRecommended for Fans of dark mysteries well told stories surprises galore good charactersTrigger Warnings murder vigilantism hate speech n word hate crimes torture drug use and abuse drug dealingAnimal Abuse cat murder x4; I liked Arvid but I don't think I can forgive him for murdering four grieving cats A dog a Fila Brasileiro attacks the group and is hit with a razor tipped cane and Tasered its leg put in a tourniuet and they then threaten to amputate its leg There is no follow up as to how badly injured the dog isMy Thoughts This book takes place about 5 months after the end of the previous one or at least the bulk of it does There is a long flashback segment that covers most of those five months Despite the overall ugliness of this story—and have no doubt about it it's very ugly—I enjoyed this one the most I think it's beca
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBPOSSIBLE SPOILERSPOSSIBLE SPOILERSPOSSIBLE SPOILERSI must say that I have had a really rough time with reviewing this book This is my second review I have even gone outside to others to seek feedback Here is whyI on average read over 400 books per year In those 400 books I would say that 90% of the time after I have read them they are out of sight out of mind with the ability to pull up a very basic synopsis if nee
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBHaving read and loved the first two books in the Inspector Vaara series by James Thompson I was excited to receive a copy of the latest book Helsinki White Inspector Vaara is a complex fascinating character; a stoic man of principle married to an American ex pat living and working in the harsh winter environment of Finland The political atmosphere rivals that of the elements Finland is experiencing an onslaught of immigrants from Somalia the Arab nations and muslims And this predominantly insular nation finds itself needing police enforcement to curb the angry sometimes violent manifests against these immigrantsAnd that is why I liked the character of Inspector Vaara In the first 2 books he solved the heinous murders of Somalians and saved a school of children from a psycho with a gun He's a national hero; not an angel by no means but a decent cop and loving fam
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBAmerican author James Thompson's Helsinki White GP Putnam Sons 2012 is as much about Finnish politics as it is about heroine crime and catching the bad guys with unorthodox methods What caught my attention when I selected the novel was that it's based in Finland a country that isn't often the setting for detective stories and it's told from the first person present tense of Inspector Kari Vaara a Finnish law enforcement officer I know nothing about what drives Finland's government economics or culture so was fascinated by this peek behind the curtains Since Vaara is married to an American I got explanations throughout the story of what was Finnish and how it differed from AmericaBriefly Vaara is asked to lead a black ops group tasked with turning the tide of a crime wave sweeping the country Funding for this endeavor comes from money they steal from the criminals The only rule Succeed There are no limits on how Vaara's rog
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBKari Vaara is a cop in Finland whose wife Kate just had a baby girl and he is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor The operation has left him with a loss of emotion something his brother assures him will pass Now that he is back at work his boss wants him to run a rogue unit and he is allowed to pick his own team Sweetness is the muscle of the group while Milo is the computer expert They fall easily into their job of stealing drugs guns and money from thugs putting trackers on the cars of drug dealers so they can rob them again Kari had thought he would be doing something goodrescuing young girls who are being forced into prostitution but convinces himself that cutting the
Kindle James Thompson ´ Helsinki White Epub Ë ´ helsinki mobile, white book, Helsinki White ePUBFour and half star Pleasantly surprised after Lucifer's Tears expectations after that were a little tuned down An half Star is missing only for certain plot points that went too far I don't want go to a politics but making True Finns Perus Suomalaiset just an anti immigrant assholes and bad guys was bit too much but i can forgive that because National Coalition Party Kokoomus gets some of the blame and they are the true Evil Ones who probably worship the Great CthulhuAll the racism war going on and a snooping on politicians went to James Ellroy territory in a good way A book structure is not conventional main plot