Helsinki white
by Thompson, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0399158324
- ISBN 13
- 9780399158322
- Seller
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Schenectady, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, 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 consequences. . . . Meanwhile, Finland roils with hatred as its most extreme right political party gains popularity despite having no agenda besides xenophobia. When the country's leading immigrants' rights advocate is assassinated and her head sent by mail to the Finnish Somalia Network, the president assigns Kari to the murder. Cracking this case will involve the unsolved kidnapping of a billionaire's children, a Faustian bargain with a former French legionnaire-and Kate.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32027
- Title
- Helsinki white
- Author
- Thompson, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0399158324
- ISBN 13
- 9780399158322
- Publisher
- New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
Terms of Sale
Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA
About the Seller
Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA
About Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA
We chose the name for euphony and because we occupied the second-highest point in the county, the top of a 1,200 foot hill. Since 1981, we have also operated W. Somers, Bookseller, a retail book shop with a constantly changing general stock of books not listed on the Internet. It is open Monday-Friday, 1-5, and Saturday, 10-5; browsers are welcome.
We've been members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American since 1977. We're also the publisher and sole source of the invaluable Bibliography Finder for American Authors, by Wayne Somers and Ilse Pinkus, which you can buy for a pittance through Biblio.com. Photo: Off on the daily post office run.
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