July 28, 2012

• The Accident

  The book I am reviewing in this post is The Accident by Linwood Barclay which is an excellent thriller which I bought from Kindle. The story is primarily about the counterfeit products and how some ruthless will stop at nothing to avoid getting caught. I think there are two main themes to the story which are how easy it’s to end someones life and how counterfeit products like medicines which are unregulated can contain anything and potentially be fatal. The story opens with two middle aged ladies who are at a market in New York and are after counterfeit handbags and are basically in the wrong place at the wrong time and end up being murdered. The book then jumps two months into the future and we follow the murderer who has done them crimes. There is an electrician who used counterfeit components on a job and a house burnt down and there’s someone who dies from counterfeit heart medication. There’s a lady who drinks and drives and may have fallen asleep at the wheel causing a crash but the people close to her think she was murdered. There’s another lady who is pushed off a pier and it looks like an accident. I think if you read this book you will look at counterfeit products in a different light. I think a final good point is a lot of the profits from knocked off stuff benefits organised crime.

   

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